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This is an Eastmand Chickadee Cutter. It is a wonderful
tool, and I use it to cut the jeans apart, and then into 1" wide strips. It has paid for itself several times over.
I put the strips at right angles to each other, and put right
sides together.
I use a zigzag stitch and make a diagonal seam across these two
strips, then without cutting thread or lifting the presser foot, I put the end of the strip I just did, and the next piece
up, and sew them together. This is pretty much the same kind of strip quilting method used by quilters.
Here is what the seam looks like.
Here are the strips finished.....I ususally sew them together
until I don't have any more room on my sewing table.
Now I cut them apart.
Then I cut the extra material off each place I sewed the diagonal
seam.
Here is a ball of glue jean strips sewn together. This
one weighs about a lb.
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