Wonky Inchies

Dear Friends,

A bit of advice before you consider "cheating" at cutting inchies in Europe. 

I thought I was being clever...and to make a long story short I ended up with two boxes of wonky inchies.  That's like 1000 inchies that are not one inch square.

It started out innocent enough.  I worked up some single sheets of watercolor paper with paint, stamps and collage elements.  Then I kept going until I had a big stack of paper that I wanted cut down into inchies.

Why, I wondered, would I possibly cut all these myself (by hand) when I can simply walk to the copy shop and have the guillotine man do it for me?

Here's why: because trimmers using the metric system cannot cut down to the half millimeter!  One inch = 2.54 centimeters.  Which means that an inch is 25,4 millimeters square.  The .4 is the problem.  This little number seems like such an insignificant amount, yet cumulatively it is not.

If you want inchies cut by a copy center or print house whose equipment is metric, you need to draw a grid out on the backside of one of your sheets and ask them to cut directly on your lines.  Do not ask them to try cut your paper into 2,54 cm squares.  They can't swing the .4, and you will end up with wonky inchies.

From my initial audit, most of my inchies are too big.  (Thank goodness).  So I'll be able to trim them down... by hand.  But wasn't that the whole reason I got myself into this mess...?

Comments

[Linda]

Your wonky inchies cracked me up. They are beautiful!
Put them back in their respective boxes and get them moved to your new and improved studio.

~Linda

[Jacqueline]

Wow, what were you thinking when you were making 1000 inchies....? :-)

That teaches us a very valuable lesson: some things can't be rushed or you can't cut corners with - well at least with cutting inchies! ;-D

But they do look good to me!
Jacqueline

[MaryRedford]

Oh my goodness thats a lot of inchies I cut them and put 10 in a baggie so i can keep up with them your are very pretty....
Thank you for shareing MaryRedford

Art by you 2 .................)) smile