Guest Author - Eva Owsian

Prepare your fabric:

***Please be very careful about ripping fabric, it creates sort of dust or fuzzies so if possible do it outside.***

Using a single thickness of 1 yard of fabric, get a ruler and scissors, cut a 3 inch slit in fabric every 2 inches (you can mark 1,1 1/2, 2, 3 inches whatever you want remember not a lot of rules 1 inch makes a thin rug/placemat, 2 inches makes a thicker one, etc.), now pick up every other slit in left hand (#1, 3, & 5) hold to the left, then pick up the ones you left behind (#2, 4, &6) with the right hand make sure they are in opposite directions and rip, that’s it. See diagram below ** get a buddy to help you, kids love to hold on and pull!! Remember you don’t want the strips overly long, try to keep them about the length from the tip of your nose to your extended arm. Some people pre-wash the fabric (I don’t), and wrap the strips into a ball (I don’t ). If I am stripping fabric, after I am done I put it into a plastic bag and just reach in and grab a strip as I go along but Please do what is most comfortable to you.



The "No Sew" join, honest, really, it's true, NO SEWING. You will eventually have to add fabric but don't panic, you can do it.
With scissors make a slit approx 1/2 from edge big enough for your finger to fit through on each end. Lay A2 on top of B1 match holes best as you can, now bring A1 under and push the fabric strip through B1 and A2, pull snug. There will be a small bump or knot where you have joined the strips. Some people slit both ends at the same time but for me it depends on how long my fabric strips are. If I am using short ones, I do snip both ends but the longer strips I wait until I need it. Either way is very acceptable.



See that wasn't so hard was it !!