If you want some strips of material for chenile work

but like me have difficulty useing scissors then use
the serger to do the job for you. simply remove the thread
from the needles and put a piece of tape on the right hand side of the needles to act as guide lines for the material.
Now simply let the material be fed through and the blade will cut of the fabric at the required width.
You can also use this method for those bias lengths. no more painfull hands just nice long cleanly cut lengths for you to play with.
cutting straight lines for quilt patches can be done this way too if you simply fold and press into double widths and then again use the serger to cut just inside the fold line. If you are going to quilt a large patch then make it up from several smaller squares and join them together with the serger. place the square into the embroidery hoop as normall with the batting and backing on your embroidery machine and do applique or embroidery work on top to give you one large mosaique square. hope this will help.