How to cut one long length of fabric???

[Auryn]

I am hoping for an enlightening tip from one of you brilliant seamstresses

I need to cut multiple 6" tall strips of tulle from a 4 yd length of fabric.
so I need an end result that is 6" tall and 4 yards long
any tips for doing without having to mark the entire length of the fabric??
or having to stretch the whole thing out the length of the house???

[gem]

Any reason you can't use 6" tulle ribbon instead? (They carry loads of colors, metallics, etc, at Hobby Lobby, too.) I think it would make your life enormously easier.

(Last year Milord's mum got involved in a craft fair, crocheting tulle pot scrubbers, and the process she described to me of cutting the tulle yardage and knotting it together was so ridiculously fiddly that I knew there had to be a better way. So I went out and bought her a couple of 25-yard spools of tulle ribbon. Way easier!!)

[Auryn]

Problem is there are no hobby lobbys anywhere within a few hours drive of me and joanns doesnt carry it in store
havent found it at michaels yet either

Of course genious I am, I wanted to get this done to wear on christmas eve- ya so don't think thats gonna happen

[CenturiesSewing]

If you have a spare cardboard fabric bolt around you could carefully wrap the tulle around that, then slide part of it off one end and cut sections at a time. Kinda like cutting cinnamon rolls.

[Captain Teague]

A yardstick and a circular cutter might do it if you fold it in layers of 3 feet.

[Auryn]

Thanks guys
I will give it a try
last night I went to bed defeated by the tulle

[Kate XXXXXX]

Rotary cutter, cutting mat, and 6"X24" quilting ruler.  I've done miles like this.

[Auryn]

brilliant Kate- I have all those things_ ill give it a shot when I get home

[Kate XXXXXX]

Is it tulle?  or dress net?  The latter is like sewing chicken wire...

[Auryn]

It was tulle.
I got lucky and found some of the precut stuff gem mentioned
spent 2 hours last night
got all the ruffling part no problem- the joining the layers together- brought me close to tears
im debating going back to the store and exchanging the tulle for some chiffon

I'm hoping that might make it easier since it has a little more body to it