I also like Deb Tucker's Tucker Trimmer. Mary, I think I saw you flick away a trimmed scrap with your rotary cutter. I heard someone say that that will dull your rotary blade faster.
I would like to try the slotted trimmer. I haven't made many HSTs but plan to in the future. I have gift certificates to use up, so hopefully my local quilt store has them. ☺️ Thank you for the great video.
I have a hack: rather than rotating the trimmer, flip your fabric tube over (pink fabric up first, then yellow fabric up), keeping the point on the left side.
@@dianecarlson2918 i try to work efficiently and reduces the number of long cuts, only 2 cuts and 2 short snips. Loc Bloc is 4 long cuts. Place, 2 cuts, rotate and either reposition tool (if you don’t have right size) or slide up. I open seams for HST, so I can’t take advantage of the “Loc”. I’m right handed and I place the point to the right and can make 2 long cuts and 2 snips without moving if I’m too lazy to pull out my rotating mat. Try both and decide. At a sew group day, I was able to test the Loc Bloc when I forgot my Slotted Trimmer, that made my decision. I didn’t like the cumbersome Bloc Loc
Thank you Norma! It's a really fun quilt and a great scrap-buster! It's called "Embracing Our Scraps" quilt. Here's the link to the pattern if you're interested: www.joyfulandmerryquilting.com/store Thanks for watching!
Thank you finally a common sense video. I hate scant quarter inch! Why do we have to use scant quarter inch. We don’t we can design our own quilts and do a full quarter inch. So worth it.
I tried this slotted ruler, but apparently I don't sew straight enough. I would get wavy sides when I opened it up to iron. I went back to the regular 6 in ruler. The block lok, however was a game changer.
I would think the "first cut" would be a little tricky since that would be a bias cut - and then I would worry about stretchiness of those two bias strips as I was sewing the two strips together. Maybe with a lot of pressing solution you could stabilize those two original strips? Let me know if you try it!
What is the timestamp where you are having difficulty viewing what I am doing? I watched the video, start to finish, and cannot find a place where anything is blocked.
It doesn't work perfectly every time but often enough to be useful. I don't use the slots for cutting off dog ears because it's too easy to nick the rotary cutter blade.
What is the timestamp where you are having difficulty? I watched the video, start to finish, and cannot find a place where the ad blocks what I am doing.
