Recently I made my first quilted items and I love them. Two quilted cushion covers, they were so much fun. I made them out of a couple of Charm Square packs bought off the internet, so there was minimal cutting out needed. Then I found some fat quarters of the same material in a local fabric shop. So, given how much I enjoyed my first quilting experience, I decided it was time for some online shopping. I had the material already after all. But lets be honest, cutting it up into small squares by hand with a pair of scissors simply wasn’t going to be accurate enough.
Result… I obviously ‘needed’ a cutting mat, rotary cutter and ruler. Give me a little while and I can usually justify ‘needing’ anything I actually want hehe…
Soon the goodies were on their way via the post and today I picked the last one up from the sorting office. The A2 cutting mat didn’t want to fit through my letter box for some reason, funny that.
So I suppose I should really decide upon a design and sizing for the runner now before I start playing with my new toys…
Maybe you need to get a bigger letterbox :)
ReplyDeleteI'm teaching at Quilters Haven on April 2nd if you want to come over - we could swap rotary cutting stories hehe!!!