What's your favorite?!

Speaking of a gazillion dollars. . . has anyone seen the new Gingher Rotary cutter for $69.99???????? I wonder if it also takes special blades that cost more gazillions of dollars? I saw it on Eleanor Burns website

Pauline Northern California

Now there's a price we can all love. Thanks, Val. Polly

"Val" I've got several sizes of bandage scissors from when I was using that sort

Sorry I wandered off like that.

I recommend any of the good brands of scissors. Ginghers are at the top of the list. They're a quality scissor at a reasonable price. The snub nose scissors seem to be getting more popular and easier to find now.

Ms P

i just love to wander thru the fabric stores and choose the fabric. of course, by the time i get there i have a pattern or idea in mind. i also love to sort thru my stash to find the perfect color or style of fabric. As i still have EQ4, my selection of fabric is limited, but i have designed some wonderful quilts with it and produced them.

amy in CNY

Based on time spent:

1. Looking at quilt related sites on the internet (3-4 hours per day)
2. Buying (I have a huge stash,library,patterns,notions,knick knacks,...)
3. Seeing the quilt come together on the design board
4. Sharing mine and seeing others' work

Wow. That is really cool. But I'll bet with a cast metal handle it's fairly heavy and would get heavy in your hand if you were cutting very much.

I'd be so light headed and nauseous from dropping $70 on a rotary cutter I'm not sure I could operate the thing if it were made of ultra light titanium.

I need a cool cloth for my neck, somebody fan me and bring the smelling salts! *thud* Val

Now, now, Val. Breathe in, breathe out. Try to compose yourself. Polly

"Val" I'd be so light headed and nauseous from dropping $70 on a rotary cutter I'm

Quick!! Somebody bring the chocolate!! She's done fainted!!

Just don't think about it and you'll be okay in a little bit!

Good grief! I wouldn't way no if someone wanted to give it to me, but I certainly wouldn't spend that kind of money on a rotary cutter -- unless, maybe, it does all of the calculating and cutting without me?

M&Ms are here now. . . . .

Why do we want blunt scissors? I have a classroom set of the kid's blunt scissors.

Seriously, why would a quilter want blunt scissors? Only three years into quilting. Please be patient with my prolonged newbie-ness. (Besides, I hold the drak chocolate M&Ms -- proof positive they do do melt in your hands and get on the keyboard.)

Buying fabric that catches my fancy, without any idea of what I will do with it. Bonnie, in Middletown, VA, where it is 75 deg. Farenheight right now. And no, that is not our usual January temp. in VA.

Collecting the patterns and fabrics.

Planning the quilt

having a complete quilt Debra in VA See my quilts at

Howdy!

But-- but-- but, Val! It comes w/ a hole in the handle for hanging, the cutter or a tag on the cutter! And its own carrying case/storage tin WITH lid! It's nickel! And! And! And! You can get it elsewhere for less.

$55

Would like to read a review, hear from someone who actually has one or has used it. May be something else special about it. ;-)

R/Sandy -- somebody hand Val the ammonia bottle.. or a shot of rum

Uses for blunt scissors: Kay, there are several, I'm thinking. Sometimes, they're needed when clipping out the background when doing lace insertion; probably not needed in piecing. Some people like to wear their scissors on a sort of necklace so the scissors are always handy. That's not something I'm going to do. I try to keep a pair of scissors at every possible work station. They all seem to migrate back together and now and then, I have to distribute them. The quilting need for blunt scissors that I have right now is for trapunto. There are lots of ways to accomplish the trapunto effect which is merely to have extra padding beneath specific areas. Let's say you have a bunny or flower that you want to be raised up from the other fabric just a little. You make a sandwich with the bunny fabric right side up, a layer of fluffy batting beneath it and a scrap of muslin under those. You stitch around the bunny through all the layers. Here's the blunt part: next, you must cut the unneeded batting from around the edge of the bunny. The trick is to not put a snip in the fabric around the bunny. "They say" that the duck-billed Ginghers are best for this but, in my hands, a tire tool would be easier. That's why I was asking for a good choice on blunt scissors. So glad you asked. It gave me an opportunity to play know-it-all. How did I do? Polly

Maybe if it came with blades that didn't get dull or get nicked it would be worth all that moolah??? Now there's an idea!

By the way - did you all know that Fiskar's bought Gingher last year? I don't know if that will change the quality of the Gingher scissors - hopefully, I have all the scissors I need, so I won't have to find out.

Pauline Northern California