After I did mine, I sat down and think about improving my way and come to this: (I have not tried this myself; may be someone will and let the others know)
1) Lay down a long strip of wax paper
2) Lay down the cut cloth strip on top of wax paper
3) Coat/ wet cloth with epoxy
4) Flip cloth / wax paper over
5) Roll cloth / wax paper up onto roller
6) Roll out cloth / wax paper onto seam
7) Peel off wax paper after epoxy start to kick

Advantages:
1) Wax paper stiffens the wet cloth -- minimize strands entangles to each other
2) Epoxy is rolled / wetted not soaked-- less is used -- minimize runs and drips
Disadvantages:
1) More steps
2) Never try before

: You convinced me to swallow my anxieties and go with a wet tape
: "scroll". But I have some questions.
: 1. With the tape rolled up, how do you get it wet through?
: 2. I can imagine this driping mass of wet tape that is more epoxy that tape.
: How do you avoid too much epoxy?
: The basic problem, as I see it, is getting the tape wet but not having
: excessive epoxy.
: Any tips are appreciated.