Originally Posted by
zennia
I keep coming back to this thread. I am so in between wanting one and not wanting one. I don't make fancy quilts, just squares, strips, HST, etc. I really need ideas on what to buy.
My quilts aren't super fancy either as I am a newish quilter, but I just treated myself to the Go! cutting system. It came with a free Go!Me! (the mini one) and a fairly good selection of dies. I do not particularly enjoy cutting (it's actually my least favorite part of quilting) and I'm not very good at it. I am doing the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt for the first time and it involves cutting lots of smallish pieces. I happened to get the die for the last clue in the package I purchased and I was amazed at how fast and how accurate the cutting was. And it made the process enjoyable. My sewing is pretty accurate, so combined with the accurate cutting, my finished units didn't even need trimming! It was wonderful. I then used it to cut my binding strips for a different quilt and that made the binding process (my second least favorite part of quilting) just a little better too!