Hello all, Mary Ellen here.

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Do you purchase pre-cut fabrics? Charm packs, jelly rolls, layer cakes or any of the many other variations? Or perhaps do you like the patterns out there for the pre-cut packs but you prefer to cut your own fabrics (scraps perhaps) to make up the pieces needed for the pattern. I am going to be doing a demo soon on cutting for pre-cut type patterns and am curious how many quilters will take the time to cut the variety of fabrics that this type of pattern generally needs.

If you do your own slicing and dicing, what are your tools of preference-particularly which rulers?

Help me out here please! Thanks and I’ll be back soon.