Thanks for all the advice. I ordered a 60 mm cutter, 5 60 mm replacement blades and 5 45 mm replacement blades yesterday from Amazon (and at great prices too) so I will be well armed with blades to get crisp accurate cuts. My book will arrive on Thursday and my fabric should be on the way today as well. I have flat pins that have a little "button" for the topper. I'm not sure they are quite as flat as the "flower" pins. I haven't ever actually used these and I'm not sure how it will feel with a ruler laid on top of them so I'll have to play around. Also I'll need to put some rubber grippers on my ruler as well (I normally like it to be sliddy but will need grip for this so I'm hoping I can remove them when I am done with this project).