Cutting Strips for a Quilted Table Runner

Video Transcript

"Hi, welcome to Expert Village, I'm Gretchen Soares and today we're going to make a Fancy Four Patch table runner. In this segment we are going to cut our light and dark fabrics into the strips that we need to piece the blocks. So we lay our fabric out making sure our salvage is lined up on the long line and the cut line on a straight. We want to make sure it nice and straight. This fabric has already been trued so we're nice and straight. And using one of these self E-Z mats is great for cutting these projects up because it makes it far simpler for us and the grids help us lay it out straight. So we're going to use our ruler, lay it out along the edge and making sure that we cut on the fold's fold, we want included. And we're going to cut a three inch wide strip of fabric. So we have one three inch strip of our light color. We're going to go ahead and count out our dark strip. We're going to do it very similar to our light strip where we line it up, salvage edge on on a straight grain, with our cut here, lining up our ruler, and we’re going to make a three inch wide cut. This is our three inch strip. We now have a set and we're going to duplicate that and have two sets. Okay, after we've cut these we're should have two green and two pink strips to piece our blocks with."