Tim--I equate dollars spent on gadgets to the amount of fabric I can buy and fabric wins every time. I have the 60mm cutter, mat and some rulers and I have done all my quilting with that for 17 years. I'm not about to change now. I went from the 45mm cutter to the 60mm cutter because I found it gave me better leverage. The 45 is my paper, junk cutter and the other is for fabric only. This way I don't have to change blades for the different functions.

Ya, I like just going back and slowly making my quilts. It's not better nor worse, but it's how I like to do it. I also use the 60mm because I got big hands and it feels better than the 'small' 45mm.

It's just 280 bucks to cut triangles and squares...

Throws me for a loop.

BTW Nice quilt Pam.

tim

To each his/her own. :wink: My least favorite part is cutting so anything I can do to get past that to actually putting it together is fine with me.

I use a 60mm too. Mainly because I got the tool and 10 blades on eBay for $28. I have a 45mm too but I like the big one.

I really enjoy cutting the fabric.

ESPECIALLY when I have the sense to change my dull blade to a nice, sharp new blade in the rotary cutter.

280 bucks??? i saw 29 bucks on their page, where am i lost??? lol
Funny, when i look at a pattern, i look for the best and easiest way to do it. I don't see any triangles, except for your huge set=in triangles, what i see is the opportunity for strip piecing, and then you just cut your strips on an angle.

$29 would be an individual die. The Go! Cutter cost $280.

The picture of the quilt pattern is misleading. There aren't any diamonds in the pattern, it's all HSTs and there are no set-in, or Y seams, at all. Of course, the actual pattern is neater than this, I just drew the lines to show the squares.

I really don't like doing diamonds. It just never seems to work out right for me.

Oh i see what you mean in the close up, wow, that will be a lot of cutting. Well what is the go cutter? Is it just a template or something more than that? This will be awesome when you have it all done

It's a device that cuts fabric into whatever die shape you have in it. Supposedly it can cut up to 10 layers of fabric at once.

http://accuquilt.com/

Tim where did you find it for $280? The cheapest I could find was $349.99.
Barb he is talking about the machine not the dies.

I got it for $280 at Shoppers Rule. Learned it from someone else on the board that $280 was the low price that they will accept. I've never shopped there so I looked around and finally did offer the $280 and it was accepted. I checked out with Paypal and I didn't have to enter any info or create a login there.