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Posted by Kate in MI on August 10, 2009, 5:58 pm
the cutter is in my left hand -- it doesn't move -- and I have fabric in
both hands too... (kind of wrap a finger around it on the left.
I let the right hand do all the work. I kind of "walk the fabric" through
my hands if that makes sense.
I then use blue painters tape to snap up the bits. Doesn't get them
all - -but gets most of them.
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Kate in MI
http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves
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> Kate:
> I've heard of this method. You have a strip in each hand ... so how do you
> hold the cutter??
> Ta, Pat
>>I actually use my rotary cutter. I do the first inch or two with the seam
>>ripper -- then I take my rotary with a VERY sharp blade -- and hold the
>>two
>>strips (one in each hand) and pull them apart every so gently to expose
>>the
>>next stitch.
>> With the super sharp rotary blade -- I pull the stitch up against the
>> blade and just keep going... stopping every now and then to adjust the
>> strips in my hand.
>> People always ask me ... "don't you cut your fabric" -- I never have --
>> I'm not putting enough pressure on it to cut the fabric -- just pulling
>> the exposed stitch against the blade.
>> I can do a strip pretty darn quick.
>> Again -- I pull gently so I don't distort the fabric -- and this might
>> not
>> work on a bias strip -- unless maybe if you starched it first.
>> But for me -- the seam ripper only sees the first inch or two.
>> I suggest you give it a try. Take a few scraps and sew them together and
>> discover how quickly you can separate them!!
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Posted by J* on August 10, 2009, 6:05 pm
still a bit confuddled on that.
how about taking a pix of the hand/fabric/cutter positions?
j.
"Kate in MI" wrote...
the cutter is in my left hand -- it doesn't move -- and I have fabric in
both hands too... (kind of wrap a finger around it on the left.
I let the right hand do all the work. I kind of "walk the fabric" through
my hands if that makes sense.
I then use blue painters tape to snap up the bits. Doesn't get them
all - -but gets most of them.
--
Kate in MI
http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves
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Posted by Kate in MI on August 10, 2009, 7:49 pm
Okay now -- think I'll need to recruit help on that one.... no hand free to
use the camera! ;-)
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Kate in MI
http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves
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> still a bit confuddled on that.
> how about taking a pix of the hand/fabric/cutter positions?
> j.
> "Kate in MI" wrote...
> the cutter is in my left hand -- it doesn't move -- and I have fabric in
> both hands too... (kind of wrap a finger around it on the left.
> I let the right hand do all the work. I kind of "walk the fabric" through
> my hands if that makes sense.
> I then use blue painters tape to snap up the bits. Doesn't get them
> all - -but gets most of them.
> --
> Kate in MI
> http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves
>
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Posted by J* on August 10, 2009, 8:09 pm
no worrys, Kate.
when you get around to it will be just fine and dandy.
j.
<who still wonders why mamas dont magically acquire extra hands on the birth
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of their firstborn>
"Kate in MI" wrote...
Okay now -- think I'll need to recruit help on that one.... no hand free to
use the camera! ;-)
--
Kate in MI
http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves
"J*" wrote...
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> still a bit confuddled on that.
> how about taking a pix of the hand/fabric/cutter positions?
show/hide quoted text
> "Kate in MI" wrote...
> the cutter is in my left hand -- it doesn't move -- and I have fabric in
> both hands too... (kind of wrap a finger around it on the left.
show/hide quoted text
> I let the right hand do all the work. I kind of "walk the fabric" through
> my hands if that makes sense.
> I then use blue painters tape to snap up the bits. Doesn't get them
> all - -but gets most of them.
> --
> Kate in MI
> http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves
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Posted by Michelle G. on August 10, 2009, 11:36 pm
I also use the rotary cutter, usually the small one. I hold the cutter in
my right hand like I'd hold a pencil, with the handle between my index and
middle finger and thumb, close down by the head of the cutter. The fabric
is then held in my right hand by the middle finger and ring finger and
little finger against the palm of my hand. Of course the left hand is
holding fabric too. This seems confusing in trying to describe it, but, it
really does feel quite natural and is really easy. I've not ever cut my
fabric either. The blade just has to touch the thread and it cuts it. Use
a pencil and try it out, then switch to the rotary cutter.
Good Luck,
Michelle G.
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> Kate:
> I've heard of this method. You have a strip in each hand ... so how do you
> hold the cutter??
> Ta, Pat
>>I actually use my rotary cutter. I do the first inch or two with the seam
>>ripper -- then I take my rotary with a VERY sharp blade -- and hold the
>>two
>>strips (one in each hand) and pull them apart every so gently to expose
>>the
>>next stitch.
>> With the super sharp rotary blade -- I pull the stitch up against the
>> blade and just keep going... stopping every now and then to adjust the
>> strips in my hand.
>> People always ask me ... "don't you cut your fabric" -- I never have --
>> I'm not putting enough pressure on it to cut the fabric -- just pulling
>> the exposed stitch against the blade.
>> I can do a strip pretty darn quick.
>> Again -- I pull gently so I don't distort the fabric -- and this might
>> not
>> work on a bias strip -- unless maybe if you starched it first.
>> But for me -- the seam ripper only sees the first inch or two.
>> I suggest you give it a try. Take a few scraps and sew them together and
>> discover how quickly you can separate them!!
>
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> I've heard of this method. You have a strip in each hand ... so how do you
> hold the cutter??
> Ta, Pat
>>I actually use my rotary cutter. I do the first inch or two with the seam
>>ripper -- then I take my rotary with a VERY sharp blade -- and hold the
>>two
>>strips (one in each hand) and pull them apart every so gently to expose
>>the
>>next stitch.
>> With the super sharp rotary blade -- I pull the stitch up against the
>> blade and just keep going... stopping every now and then to adjust the
>> strips in my hand.
>> People always ask me ... "don't you cut your fabric" -- I never have --
>> I'm not putting enough pressure on it to cut the fabric -- just pulling
>> the exposed stitch against the blade.
>> I can do a strip pretty darn quick.
>> Again -- I pull gently so I don't distort the fabric -- and this might
>> not
>> work on a bias strip -- unless maybe if you starched it first.
>> But for me -- the seam ripper only sees the first inch or two.
>> I suggest you give it a try. Take a few scraps and sew them together and
>> discover how quickly you can separate them!!
>