guess what I bought - never expected to
Went into a lqs while visiting in Manalapan, NJ, just to pass the time. I bought two halloween fabrics to add to my collection for a halloween quilt. As I was paying, the sales person off-handedly said to me, "Do you want to buy an accuquilt studio? It's used, but works fine. $200!. It includes all these dies."
I thought about it for about 5 seconds. called DH to let him know I was buying it. He wanted to know if it had a warrantee. No. I told him to think of it as Merry Christmas and happy birthday.
It's the Studio model, very heavy. My sister and I played with it today. I had a brainstorm - I mostly strip piece and there were no strip cutters in the set of die. So I took a 9" mis-cut strip and a 6.5" square die, folded the fabric so it only cut on two sides of the square, and cut. It works, I have strips!"
That saves me buying a few strip dies, and they are expensive!