How does the tendonitis react to a rotary cutter? I picked up a huge cutting mat (about 25.00 after a 50% off coupon) and plan to get a second one to tape end to end for longer pieces. I find the rotary is much faster than scissors or electric scissors, you can pin right to the cutting mat, and it reduces the strain on my back from cutting out patterns because it goes so fast. For inside curves I use a small diameter rotary, and the scissors are mainly just needed for the positioning notches. They even make rotary cutters with a sort of pistol grip these days which may be easier on you.AntiM wrote:I broke out the patterns and contemplated new outfits in case we get to go to the Utah Decomm. Tendonitis be damned. But I just can't decide! Something simple, and uses my shiny shimmery sheer stash of fabrics. A suit for MyLarry, if I can swing the buttonholes.
LOL, 55 yards is nothing. I must have hundreds of yards of fabric to choose from. I went wild a few years back when the big local fabric shop in the mall went out of business, and when Jo-Ann crafts went from a hole in the wall shop to Big Box and sold off their "local" stock, and whenever there's been a killer sale, plus I inherited Mom's fabric stash. Raw silk and cottons and lurex and spandex and velvet (real and panne) and brocade and linings and polyester and gauze and sheers and taffeta and upholstery and tulle and rolls of yukata cotton prints and miniature prints for the dollhouse. I have three bins, two teaboxes, and a tall tansu (chest of drawers) full, plus heaps in the scrap basket and a few bolts on the (un)work table. Sheesh. Like my mother, I am a fabric addict.
Yah, I can see a huge fabric collection in my future - 55 yards was just one trip to Joanns.
Buttonholes - for the coats I just put dummy buttons on and then sewed in snaps to hold it closed. I may practice making buttonholes in the future, but I wasn't really up to attempting it on long pile fur.
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