| When you are sewing, rotary cutting mats are great | | | | table. |
| for cutting with a rotary cutter. However, when you | | | | More Sewing Tips |
| are cutting slippery fabrics, it is difficult to keep the | | | | Raise Your Table Legs |
| fabric where you want it. | | | | To help prevent back aches, raise your cutting table up |
| Here is a sewing tip on how you can make your own | | | | higher by placing tall cans like juice cans under each |
| non-slip cutting mat. | | | | leg. This helps tremendously. |
| Create A Cork Top Table | | | | If you want to permanently raise the legs of your table |
| Use cork sheeting as a non-slip cutting mat when you | | | | and the legs are tubular, you might try PVC pipe. Put |
| are sewing and cutting silky, slippery fabrics or anytime | | | | caps on the ends of the pipe or use casters to keep |
| you are cutting with dressmaker shears. The fabric | | | | the legs from marking the floor. |
| doesn't move around like it does on the rotary mat. | | | | Steady Your Sewing and Overlock Machines |
| Poke your pins right into the cork to hold your fashion | | | | Use a square of cork sheeting under your |
| fabric. This is great for tracing patterns, too. Stabbing | | | | overlock-serger or sewing machine to keep it from |
| the pins into the cork holds everything in place. | | | | moving around when you sew. This is also good on |
| Find cork sheeting at your local hardware store like | | | | the floor to keep your foot pedal from sliding around. |
| Home Depot or Lowes. Wider widths are available | | | | Make A Portable Cork Cutting Mat |
| there. Craft stores usually carry only narrow widths. | | | | Glue some cork sheeting to the backside of your small |
| Have the hardware store cut the cork to the size of | | | | portable rotary cutting mat so you can take it with you |
| your cutting table. | | | | when you go to your sewing classes or travel. Then, |
| Draw vertical, horizontal and bias lines on it with | | | | you will have both mats available when you need |
| permanent marker if you like. Glue a tape measure | | | | them. |
| along the ends for quick measuring. | | | | Make A Cork Bulletin Board |
| Cork sheeting is flexible and lightweight. You can roll it | | | | Make a cork bulletin board to post your sewing notes, |
| up when not in use. Or, keep it on top of or under your | | | | etc. Recycle an old picture frame. Glue cork to a piece |
| rotary cutting mat so that it is handy when you need it. | | | | of cardboard and frame it. |
| It will keep the rotary mat from slipping on the table if | | | | Or frame the cork with some trim from your stash or |
| you keep the cork under the rotary mat when not in | | | | glue measure tapes around it or old spools of thread. |
| use. | | | | It just makes sense! |
| Another idea is to use cork tiles to create a cork top | | | | |