Ask Wendi: Rotary Cutting Wide Fabric

A couple of months ago I made a video about cutting fabric with rotary cutting tools. I got an excellent question from an anonymous commenter. . .

Hi, I bought fabric for quilting and it is 51 inches selvage to selvage folded.....my question is how do I cut that? Neither my cutting mat or my ruler are long enough.

The answer here is easy to say - kind of tricky to do right. In the video I show you how to fold the fabric in half the long way to cut it. That works with my big mat and long ruler - but what if your tools are smaller?

Well - you fold the fabric in half the long way again. Easy, right? Yes. The trick is that you have to make your folds exactly parallel to each other, so that your cut across the fabric run perpendicular to both of them. Otherwise you'll get annoying Vs at the folds. There's no special skill needed for this - you just have to be fussy about getting everything lined up as best you can.

Happy Wednesday!

Best,
Wendi