(Don't let the prone posture fool you. He stays perfectly still, but the eyes follow you everywhere, and periodically he'll whine at you about how slowly you are moving.)And that is a dull rotary cutter blade. Grrrr!
Last night I started cutting out my next incarnation of the HotPatterns Tango Blouse, this one in heavy red silk crepe. When I felt that telltale bump in my hand as I cut the collar pieces. Sure enough, there's a spot on the blade that is terribly dull. You can't see it, but boy, when you try to cut through fabric, you feel it! I know I didn't run over any pins in my last project (the triple-secret project), but I must have just worn it down. That's the problem with rotary cutters. I dearly love mine. I use it for 95% of the cutting that I do, and the rest goes to my Kai shears. But when you hit a pin, or when the blade gets dull from normal use, fugghedaboutit. And those little sharpeners they sell in sewing stores? Pfeh! They don't do squat, I don't care what anyone says.
The bummer is that I have been holed-up in my sewing room, trying to see how long I could continue to sew cool stuff without having to set foot into the frozen tundra that is Massachusetts this week. Oh well, I have to go out to see a friend who's visiting from Sydney at lunch, so I'll just stop by JoAnn and pick up a 5 pack on my way home.
Happy sewing!
2 comments:
I braved the tundra that is LI to buy a 5 pack at JoAnns and I even had a 50 off coupon. Did they have them? No. Never when I have a coupon do they have it in stock! Hope you had better luck.
Y'know Ann, one of the many, many reasons I love to read your blog is that you can come up with a written word for the ever-so-expressive "pfeh" and (my personal favourite) "meh" noises which say so much. Hope you got the blades!
Judy Williment
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