In another thread we got to talking about cutting strips of 'glass on the bias, and how some of us find it easy and preferable while others find it too tedious and wasteful to mess with. Ultimately we all do what works best for us and it's all good, but I thought I'd clarify my approach.

A half-sheet of 1/4" Baltic birch plywood (2.5' x 5') sanded to be snag-free, is dedicated to a cloistered life as a cutting board; it is kept clean and undamaged in my sheet goods storage area. It comes out only when I need to handle fiberglass, CF or kevlar cloth, and is returned to its envelopment immediately afterward. Two trash cans, adjustable roller stands, sawhorses, whatever, complete it as a clean dry, smooth, flat place to work almost instantly. A Fiskars rotary fabric cutter makes it too easy -- zip! zip! Cutting enough bias strips to tape a sheer seam wont take much more than fifteen minutes start to finish.

I keep a butter tub full of lead fishing sinkers in the one- to five-ounce weight range for use as "paperweights", since my "shop" is an open air carport subject to the four winds.......

Keep a shop vac handy and use it often to keep all loose fluffies and strands clear.