Hasn't been that long ago-after my mom died, I brought home her stash and all of her quilting books and decided to give it a try. She even had a rotary cutter in its original package. I bought a mat, read a little and used only fabric that was in her things. I didn't quite have the cutting thing down, and I had a lot of mis-cuts and no way to find the same fabrics-so I just went with it. . .it turned out okay-but there were a lot of real short seams and it's on an unused bed upstairs-I wouldn't want to risk washing it!!!