All I have to say is Best invention to revolutionize the home quilting industry for me ! Thanks Mr Okada..

Raising my hand too. Also bought one and was afraid of it. Now what a difference

I grew up with my grannies both using scissors to cut everything and hand quilting at the quilting bees - when I took an interest in Quilting - it was mid 1980's - I bought my first rotary cutter and ruler - wow - then I found a Debbie Mumm book that showed how to sew strips together then rotary cut them apart - what a revolution. Unfortunately, I could not pursue quilting then - I worked all the time and what little money we had - wasn't enough for me to pursue it. Now almost 30 yrs later - I think I own every gadget and love my rotary cutters and rulers.

I didn't learn about rotary cutters until the 90's; I remember sitting as a young teen and spending hours with my grandma, laboriously scissor-cutting pinned layers of wool into squares for her quilts. I got pretty good at it and gained a deep appreciation for quality scissors, but once I started really doing my own quilting I found out about rotary cutting, and I have never looked back!! (I still have a love scissors though, I have to restrain myself from collecting them!)

Thanks for posting this. I didn't know about this at all and appreciate the history lesson.

Great thread, thanks for sharing.

Yep, my hand is in the air! Worse than that, my first quilting class used actual blueprints of each of the 12 sampler blocks!