Making "I Spy" quilts are my favorite - and I do a lot of fussy cutting. Nothing annoys me more than to see a kids quilt and the main character has its head cut off. I don't care if it a charity quilt or not - no child wants to see that. There is a lot of waste - but that goes with the that type of quilt. Several of mine are hexagon quilts and the hexagon template that I use to cut them out I can see thru, for my squares I have a clear ruler so they can be centered. When I cut out the images I do use the 28mm rotary cutter, it doesn't make a big slice. The only other way to do it would be to outline your template on the fabric and cut it out with scissors. (Which I am not willing to do.)