# Repeating Fussy Cutting

<figure><img src="/files/2FNHFpfR2im4An0NEQil" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Repeated fussy cutting using a fabric link</em></p></figcaption></figure>

{% hint style="warning" %} <mark style="color:orange;">**ALERT:**</mark> When a digital fabric swatch is used as a Fabric Link, its position and rotation is universal and the same in an entire quilt. You cannot fussy cut individual blocks differently using the same fabric link. Changes made to the Fabric Link will affect everything that uses it.

<mark style="color:blue;">**TIP:**</mark> If you'd like to have different parts of a digital fabric swatch fussy cut, we'd recommend using your digital fabric swatch as a **static** fabric.
{% endhint %}

In this Help Guide, I'll show you how to fussy cut a digital fabric swatch when its being used in a Fabric Link. Because of its nature, a Fabric Link will behave the same everywhere it is used in a quilt. So by fussy cutting a digital fabric when it's being used in a Fabric Link, it repeat itself in every occurance. Sometimes this is intended (like in this example) and sometimes that's not intended. If that is not your intention - try the Help Guide for [One-Off Fussy Cutting](/prequilt-101/all-about-fabric/fussy-cutting/one-off-fussy-cutting.md).

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## <mark style="color:blue;">Create Repeating Fussy Cutting</mark>

In this example, the fabric being used has cute little bunnies that I’d like to visualize fussy cutting and using in a Kaleidoscope quilt.

Since it is a going to be a repeating fussy cut (meaning I want to make the SAME fussy cut multiple times), I'll be using a Fabric Link.

However, when I first select the digital fabric swatch, I cannot see the bunny in my block. To reposition the fabric to highlight the bunny, we’ll change the properties for the **Top** and **Left** position of the digital fabric swatch.

1. <mark style="color:blue;">**Open**</mark> the quilt you’d like to edit.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/4WeCnDgAJ6DIZXx0IpIs" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
2. Click <mark style="color:blue;">**BLOCKS**</mark> tab on the left side control panel.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/LtSoUCtWUjIVONj7gRk0" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
3. Click on the <mark style="color:blue;">**Edit Block**</mark> button for the block with the fabric you’d like to fussy cut.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/8HWgT1McKS6o6Sz6VR0w" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
4. The Block Editor panel will slide out with the block. <mark style="color:blue;">**Click on the block component**</mark> (patch or piece) that you’d like to link a digital fabric swatch to. It will be outlined in a box.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/HyM0gGNPXvuiNked3fWa" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
5. On the left side control panel, click on the <mark style="color:blue;">**Edit**</mark> button for the Fabric Link that you’d like to change.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/ooOvyD9fnEFKOSH3DtvE" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
6. An edit panel will slide out from the left side with with the printed fabric swatch being used highlighted.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/AthtFrATlCmmpXF1tlgT" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
7. Change the <mark style="color:blue;">**number for Move Top**</mark> and <mark style="color:blue;">**Move Left**</mark> until the bunny is visible in the quilt block piece.

   * **TIP:** If you hold the shift button and then press the up or down arrows on your keyboard, the numbers will increase or decrease in groups of ten. This will make the process a little faster.
   * **NOTE:** You might also need to Rotate the digital fabric swatch to be able to find the detail you'd like to fussy cut.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/S9ldqhucSV8fg1LvjtxN" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/8Lf951LHjWe1PZBUpXdM" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Before position changed</em></p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/LL9ZGnDk6OCj4r97wpJy" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>After position changed to highlight bunny</em></p></figcaption></figure></div>
8. Once you're happy with how your fabric has been repositioned, click on the <mark style="color:blue;">**X**</mark> (<img src="/files/8xSHKFfWjvbtbQoIYGdY" alt="" data-size="line">) on the Fabric Link panel to exit back to the Block Editor.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/ehzb2aPfd4SkcxZYopyY" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
9. Click on the <mark style="color:blue;">**Save to Quilt**</mark> button in the top right corner of the Block Editor to go back to the full quilt.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/vYj9KqQnBHW9YHZJTMS6" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
10. Here's a before and after of our quilt:

    <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/xTAMy123O9FY2HiKWu89" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Before fabric position changed</em></p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/zde6XK1C7Z7iVmoJyjal" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>After fabric position changed</em></p></figcaption></figure></div>


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