{"id":1556,"date":"2010-02-14T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/rotary-cutting-unusual-shapes\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:22:19","slug":"rotary-cutting-unusual-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/rotary-cutting-unusual-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotary cutting unusual shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Judy Martin has created a video on how to rotary cut unusual shapes. Most of us can handle rectangles\/squares or triangles, but those odd shapes can be a bit of a challenge. This video explains as well as any I&#8217;ve seen how to approach the problem, though I think I might avoid cutting toward myself. \ud83d\ude09 Get some popcorn and enjoy the (very short) movie!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1556-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Rotary-Cutting-Unusual-Shapes-360p.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Rotary-Cutting-Unusual-Shapes-360p.mp4\">http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Rotary-Cutting-Unusual-Shapes-360p.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judy Martin has created a video on how to rotary cut unusual shapes. Most of us can handle rectangles\/squares or triangles, but those odd shapes can be a bit of a challenge. This video explains as well as any I&#8217;ve seen how to approach the problem, though I think I might avoid cutting toward myself. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[299],"tags":[217,233,295],"class_list":{"0":"post-1556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-quilting","7":"tag-piecing-2","8":"tag-rotary-cutting","9":"tag-video","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-p6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1372,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/discovery\/","url_meta":{"origin":1556,"position":0},"title":"Discovery","author":"Sandy","date":"November 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've seen those gloves we quilters can buy to protect our hands while using rotary cutters; they're rather pricey, going for around $25 retail. 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There are lots of different patterns around, but this is the one we're using -- and it could have been paper pieced, if you'd prefer.1. 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