we'll never know that it wasn't all perfect right that's true and i won't tell anybody oh good okay so i'm just going to make the first cut here you know people also say don't use the lines on your cutting mat but i use mine all the time i'm not that much of a perfectionist and it's just easier for me i do for some things wasn't the reason because the lines on your mat might not be the same distance as the lines on your ruler and if you mix them up you get mixed up no yeah that's what i learned that's when i stopped making traditional quilts yeah i kind of guessed that yeah the art was more exciting to me so yes less stress so i'm just going to use these lines to give you a perfect square it does not that anybody ever measures my stuff they better not no i hate to be perfect okay so there it looks really nice and it's ready for rat-tail binding you