AccuQuilt Go

[Diane F.]

Hi Lorchen & all! My LQS has a Accu-Quilt "Studio" club. Once a year you pay "dues"($60 last year) to use the big Accu-Quilt Studio machine in the quilt store. The owner has a class to teach first time users on how to use the machine then you sign up whenever the shop is open to use time on the machine & the many dies that she has. She also has project classes "showcase-ing" new dies to show what can be done thus creating new excitement & interest in the machine and bringing in $$$ for the shop. I do have a Go Baby...and love it but it does have the size limitation problem. The dies & mats are an expense...but with the Studio club I can use the latest dies without having to shell out $$$ and worry if I will ever use the die set again! It's a win-win all the way around for me!

I read this forum thread and I kept thinking...wouldn't this be a great opportunity for a quilt shop to have a machine to cut pieces. Might work great for folks who like to participate in block of the months at their local quilt shop. I think that it would be nice to have a die available to cut out curved pieces, esp. such as drunkard path blocks, etc.

One miss of a template with your rotary cutter can make you a believer! Blood, butterfly bandages or stitches, possibly a tetnus shot. Yes, I am speaking from experience... :roll:

Diane

[Jill B.]

Kevin I understand what you are saying as I don’t have a go cutter myself as I don’t do a lot of appliqué work and I use paper piecing a great deal, BUT my best friend who has arthritis in her hands bought one and it has made her patchworking life so much better, especially after thinking she would have to give it up, and like some other comments the machine would be great if you needed large/huge amount of small pieces cut.

[Jill B.]

I use the Studio Cutter & my Go Baby for cutting my binding strips, triangles & squares etc. (6 layers for most part). I don't pre-wash(GASP! yep...I one of those gals!) unless it's hand dyed...I do have some sense! If I use a fusable on the fabrics I cut 4 layers at a time. Then fuse to the background and sew down.
I also use Ricky's Stable Stuff for my applique pieces (6 layers) for perfect circles, flowers & leaves! Glue the die cut applique piece of Stable Stuff to my fabric, cut around the Stable Stuff with a 1/4" or so allowance for turning and use a glue stick to turn the applique piece, then machine or hand sew that to the backgound. So much fun & really a time saver!