Brother ScanNCut
 

Anyone seen these, are they comparable to the silouette, they have a few applique and quilt things for it

On the Brother site, it says it's coming out in October. Looks interesting.

http://www.brother-usa.com/scanNcut/


there are videos on there also

http://www.brother-usa.com/ScanNCut/Videos.aspx

This looks rather interesting. I just bought an E-bosser. It is an electric cutter that uses dies. I liked it because it can use Sissix, Acququilt Go, and several other brands of dies. Found an Acququilt die at Hancock's for 40% off and another one at Michaels for 40% off. I can hardly wait to use them.

I saw a machine similar to the Brother at a quilt show a few weeks back... although it didn't have the scanner part which I don't mind at all. Scanners have a tendency to kick it so I'd rather not have that feature included. The one I saw at the show used graphics which you could download for free, buy or create on your own from drawings or found clipart. It was sweet. I was interested in it for making decals and maybe applique pieces to sell. I'm still considering it.

It was called the Silhouette Cameo Cutter
http://www.silhouetteamerica.com/select-a-silhouette

I am still really considering this baby... I would love to start selling decals and die cuts in my shop.

I have owned a cricut for a very long time, I could never get it to cut fabric properly, they are coming up with and over the net product to use several different file formats with the scanncut, I just purchased it and can wait to get started cutting... love the fact it has a scanner as other products require expensive software, and carterages...

You have to stabilize the fabric. Some stabilizers might be better than others. I have the Silhouette Cameo, have not tried fabric yet, but anything that uses a knife might not be as good as a die that works by pressure. The Silhouette and Cricut both use knives. The Silhouette will cut your own designs with some practice.

I will say that the scan n cut cut fabric flawlessly, you only have to starch the fabric if you are cutting quilt blocks or other fabrics for embellishment, I fused the applique backing (going to tst some others) and it cut flawlessly

already love this thing more than my cricut which I have never been able to cut fabric with no matter how hard I tried....

I saw this in action at our recent Utah Quilt Festival and I was very very impressed.
I too am a long time Cricut owner (have the original and the larger Expression) and have never gotten a decent cut of fabric with it.
If I didn't have $$$invested in cartridges I would try and work out a way to get the Scan N Cut. I loved that you could use die cut images, downloaded images or something you create yourself for example a child's drawing and also once it's been scanned or downloaded in the machine will cut the fabric no matter where it is on the mat!
Ahh well at a show special of $400 it was too rich for me but maybe one day!

here is my sample for applique, trying some different fusible web today and going to try my hand at no stabilizer for other things like quilt blocks and felting....

I love mine even though I'm still learning and lucky to have a store to call for support too. I used it to cut contruction paper jackolanterns for Halloween from the designs stored on machine, over 800 stored on it. I'm now using it to cut felt for the applique footballs going on a projects and the alphabets for names on same project. The scanning feature is one of the best thing about it because not only can you scan designs in; you can scan your fabric in and then put the design exactly on the fabric where you want it for fussy cutting. It will even draw your designs out for you and for the many, many built in quilt blocks, you can have it draw the 1/4 in sewing allowance (or you can make it different) and you can resize the blocks to what you need; even HST. Like I said, I'm still learning and sometimes I get frustrating as in alot of things but I keep on trying and call one of the stores here when I need help with something. Oh, you can use this with scrap booking too with lots of built in frames for photos, you can sign your name and it'll cut it out so no more looking and buying those special phrases for special things when you need it. It will cut most things like balsa wood, leather, I ordered it before it was released and they were able to release it early. There are youtubes on it plus videos on Brother's website to show you more