It wasn't easy, nor pleasant, but I took time to clean off the table I use to cut fabric and found it...the table and my cutting mat! I hadn't really "lost" my cutting mat, but it's as good as gone when the table is so full of past project remnants that I can no longer cut on the mat! I took this picture as proof! This Olfa mat is nearly 25 years old. You can see some writing that one of my sons did with a colored pencil..some paint marks from my dollmaking days, cuts with batting in them from using a dull olfa blade to cut through layers.. and one thing you can't see is a crack that happened one year when I thought I could ship it in a big box by just barely making it a U-shape and padding inside and outside the "U." When we got to my in-laws, the mat had a big crack in it! Which, with some cloth tape on the back, we fixed! And I've used it that way ever since!
I've cut so much fabric with that Olfa cutter and mat. They are like part of the family! Although I've seen the more ergonomic cutters, I always stick with old faithful! I'm kind of surprised I've never lost it!
Funny how just looking at this picture brings back tons of memories for me! I think I'll go visit it right now and sew before bedtime!
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