Originally Posted by
memepat
Light bulb goes off. Never thought the grooves in my mat might be causing the rotary blade to get nicked. Wow. Maybe need a new mat or condition the old one. Thanks for the tip.
Sometimes the "skip" is there because of the older cuts on your mat do not allow the fabric to be cleanly cut over them, so I just replaced my cheaper June Taylor "cutting mat" with a little more expensive "self healing" mat from an art supply store, in the hope that the cutter will work longer, and more efficiently. The "cutting mat" was a hard plastic, made more for protecting the table that protecting the blades, like a "self healing mat". As usual, I live and learn.