In celebration of their awesome new line of rulers and cutting templates Simplicity® Studio, our friends at Simplicity have given us some great blog candy for a big blog giveaway! The excitement doesn’t end here though, as we have something else to celebrate: Simplicity’s awesome new and improved website!
When you head over to the new Simplicity site, you’ll be happy to see all the new features and resources they have to offer. The Idea Exchange has dozens of tips on everything from sewing to quilting, knitting, and crochet. The Simplicity Classroom has sewing lessons, free projects, and a bunch of downloadable resources to help you with your creations. A beautiful new design and user friendly interface are the icing on the cake over at Simplicity. Congratulations Simplicity and thank you!
In the way of blog giveaway goods, we have Simpli-EZ Rule “standard” cutting rulers in user-friendly sizes (4 1/2″ x 4 1/2″square, 6 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ square, 9 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ square, 6 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ rectangle, and 6 1/2″ x 24″ rectangle) and there are some “fancier” ones that I’ll describe later.
The first thing I noticed about them all is how easy to read the printed numbers are. The acrylic is clear and will work well on both light and dark fabrics.
The “standard” rulers even have cutting numbers for left-and right-handers! And these are printed in 
different colors (red for lefties and black for righties) so there’ll be no confusion as to which end you’re measuring from. (I have cut incorrectly because I forgot which end was which before!)
Another feature that will be helpful is having the eighths marked with the full number (2 3/8″, 2 5/8″, 2 7/8″ etc). No more counting off the inches to see where I am on the ruler. The eighths are also marked in several places down the length of the ruler and are close enough for me to line up both ends of even a small strip of fabric.
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