What notions are a waste of money?
#191
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Camarillo, California
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Originally Posted by hulahoop1
Originally Posted by Annaquilts
A pounce to stencil. I can't get it to work for me. I even bought a lot of the special stencils with it and I can not use those for other things. Some people love a pounce so maybe I am doing it wrong?
Well I am seeing people liking and using some stuff that others thought useless. Maybe time to sell some stuff?
Well I am seeing people liking and using some stuff that others thought useless. Maybe time to sell some stuff?
I havn't figured out my pouncer either. When I have used it, I can't see the chalk very well and it seems to wipe off too easily.
#192
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Once an Iowan, always an Iowan, but now suburban Chicagoland
Posts: 508
Originally Posted by PattyS
I love my Alto Cut. I have a paralyzed Left hand and found being able to hold the fabric down under the bar and place my hand on ruler I can use rotary cutter to cut fabric. To keep ruler from sliding I put little grippee pieces on the bottom. It works for some but now that I have found the Accuquilt GO I am a happy camper. Some of the older quilters also don't like to change the way they have been doing things over years.
#196
The spray baste helps keep the quilt in place until you baste it - not instead of basting. Also, if you've never used the rotary cutter and ruler - go ahead and try it - I think it's the BEST thing since sliced bread!(OK , better than sliced bread!) But be careful of cutting over pins and needles or the blade will dull, and you WILL hate it. Change the blade when you start to skip bits of fabric. If I had to cut every quilt with scissors and templates, I'd have found something else to do!
#197
Originally Posted by MadQuilter
I have a small cutting mat on a lazy Susan - never used it effectively.
#198
Originally Posted by quiltmom04
The spray baste helps keep the quilt in place until you baste it - not instead of basting. Also, if you've never used the rotary cutter and ruler - go ahead and try it - I think it's the BEST thing since sliced bread!(OK , better than sliced bread!) But be careful of cutting over pins and needles or the blade will dull, and you WILL hate it. Change the blade when you start to skip bits of fabric. If I had to cut every quilt with scissors and templates, I'd have found something else to do!
#199
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: North Texas
Posts: 1,283
Originally Posted by Grandmother23
Originally Posted by Bobbin along
Originally Posted by sewTinker
When I was Brand New to quilting, I saw a quilter on Simply Quilts use a kind of "ruler" that is essentially a big square with cutting slits every two inches. You square your fabric and lay this on it and then rotary cut through the slits. I used it once unsuccessfully - it required more coordination than apparently I possess. Perhaps with practice I could master it... Meanwhile, it sits propped behind my cutting table. for 10 years. lol...
MLT
#200
Originally Posted by featherweight
There is no way in h_l that I would cut with the scissors and templates.
:-D :-D Nor me! I'm beginning to think that way about the rotary cutter and ruler cutting now that I use the Go die cut machine. :wink:
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