I Love "The Cutting Gizmo"!! If you Chain Piece, This Is For You!!
05-31-2014, 12:24 AM
#11
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Mine is labelled 'The Gypsy Gizmo' (who I believe was the original creator of this). Website here.
Can you live without it? Yes. Will it replace scissors? No.
I really like mine, but then I love to try new things and am open to ideas that save me time (at my age, life is all too short, lol).
When I chain-pieced a confetti quilt recently it saved me a lot of time - by not having to stop and pick up snips or scissors or fumble with the machine side cutter, invariably dropping pieces on the floor or worse - down the side of the machine, lol.
Like Onebyone, several women at my class dismissed it (without even trying it) but now ask if I have it with me. Think the message here is - don't knock 'til you've tried it?
Can you live without it? Yes. Will it replace scissors? No.
I really like mine, but then I love to try new things and am open to ideas that save me time (at my age, life is all too short, lol).
When I chain-pieced a confetti quilt recently it saved me a lot of time - by not having to stop and pick up snips or scissors or fumble with the machine side cutter, invariably dropping pieces on the floor or worse - down the side of the machine, lol.
Like Onebyone, several women at my class dismissed it (without even trying it) but now ask if I have it with me. Think the message here is - don't knock 'til you've tried it?
05-31-2014, 02:45 AM
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05-31-2014, 03:59 AM
#13
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Location: Michigan
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I LOVE mine. It's big & purple so you don't loose it on your cutting table, weighted & very sturdy, and you can't cut or stab yourself! Another good thing is it takes a single edge razor blade so you can change the cutter when it gets dull.
05-31-2014, 04:44 PM
#15
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Join Date: Apr 2014
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I Loooooooove this tool! I just finished a kingsize variant of a Jacob's ladder quilt for which I chained-pieced each segment of the block and then, of course, each stage of the block. This tool is much faster than scissors, snips, or the machine cutter if you have thousands of small pieces to snip between.
05-31-2014, 06:24 PM
#17
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Join Date: May 2014
Location: West Texas
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LOL, bought one on Amazon earlier this week and used it all day long today for the first time. I can't believe how much faster it was to use this tool than to pick up my snips and keep the pieces taut with one hand and cutting with the scissors with the other. Way more efficient. Necessity? I've quilted over 25 years without it . . .but it's now my new favorite notion and I'm ordering a second for my take along bag.
06-01-2014, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Geri B
Here's a make your own......empty spool of thread....ripper...insert handle of same into center core of spool....set on table...use the cap of ripper to cover the gizmo when not in use.......works for me....
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