Halloween Twister Quilt part 2

Today I am going to talk about cutting out the quilt blocks.

I have found some great cutting rulers and rotary cutters that I want to share with you.  The great products come from Martelli Enterprises.  First, I would like to say that I think they have by far the best rotary cutter on the market. Next, I have discovered their templates.  They are a little expensive but I signed up for their Red Line notifications and got them for 50% off.

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The Martelli cutter is supposed to be able to cut up to 32 layers of fabric at a time, so I laid four different fabrics on top of each other with each fabric folded four ways (this makes 16 layers of fabric).

 Next I used my Martelli strip ruler to cut the fabric into 5" blocks. First I cut off the right edge to even up the fabrics.

Then I put my cutter into the slot that was 5" from the right edge ( I put inch markings on my slots  so it would be easier to know which slot to use).

Next I put the cutter into the slot 10" from the right edge. 

After that I rotated the fabric 90 degrees and repeated putting the cutter in slots at 5" and at 10".

 

Look a the nicely stacked 5" squares that I made with only 12 cuts (six different fabrics, using this method I cut two stacks of fabric). Total came to 96 5" squares.