I bought the circle maker from Nancy Zieman's catalog. It cost me about $20.00. I am hoping to make 2 orange peel quilts for my granddaughter's for Christmas, I have sewn about 40 of the circles and only had minor problems with 2-3 of them. The circles didn't end up meeting as they should have. Operator error I'm sure. I'm very happy with this device and am glad I bought it. The only problem I have had is that I realized that the fabric that comes forward and forms the orange slices is cream colored and I can see the zigzag trimmed seam. I'll know better the next time.

I saw this on "Sewing With Nancy" also. She did show alternative, like using a tack through some tape (the tack is point up) and sewing around it.

I saw the tutorial on this board with the thumb tack. That worked great. Then I saw the attachment on Nancy's Notions. Bought it. my opinion, use the thumb tack. You can make bigger circles with the thumb tack than you can with the attachment.

I bought it, but I couldn't get it to work on my Janome Horizon.

I was given one for Christmas. I have used it. The tack is easier and will do bigger circles and almost easier to control. This is more fun though.

Does anyone know where to find the tut on using a tack? please pm me if ya do.