Product Description

Great Rotary Cutting Secrets— Plus Piecing, Pressing & Finishing; 12 Gorgeous Projects Hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques guaranteed to INSTANTLY IMPROVE every quilt you make! Rotary Cutting Secrets: Rotary cutting is a breeze once you know the secrets for choosing the right equipment and cutting accurately, comfortably, and safely. Pressing Simplified: Perfectly flat blocks are easy to achieve with tried-and-true methods for pressing. Perfect Piecing: Even tricky piecing techniques are a snap when you follow the step-by-step photos and illustrations. Tips and Tricks Galore: Your quilt will be square, flat, and beautifully bound after you've put the easy tips and tricks into practice. 12 Projects for You to Make: Easy and accurate directions make these quilts go together in a snap, no matter what your skill level is.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #236521 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 125 pages

Review
"Finally, a tell-all book about rotary cutting and machine piecing. No little secrets are held back, and no important details are left unexplained. Good advice about everything you'll ever need to know about quiltmaking."--John Flynn, best-selling quilt author, designer, teacher, and inventor of innovative tools for quilters

Review

Ingram
"Rotary Magic" presents the essentials of rotary cutting--plus hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques on piecing and finishing a beautiful quilt. The author takes to heart her students' quiltmaking questions and problems and has reinvented the very best techniques for quiltmaking. 102 color photos & illustrations .

Customer Reviews

The BEST quilting book!
I have purchased numerous quilting books and this one is the absolute BEST! If you are a new quilter, this book is for you and if you are an experienced quilter, this book is for you too! It has great instructions, wonderful pictures to show you how to sew it and 12 projects to do. The project names are "Floating Stars", "Pine Tree Delight", "Campbell House", "Monkey Wrench Times 2", "Indian Puzzle", "Ferris Wheel Flowers", "Dancing Star Table Runner", "Square within a Square Miniature", "Country Potpourri", "A Celebration of Cats", "Black Star Eruption" and "Stars at an Angle". If you can afford only a few books, buy this one. It is that good.

Loved the book
This is the best purchase I've made learning to quilt. The tips have allowed me to do fairly complex blocks as a beginner. She covers all the basic tools and how to use them, not only how to pin but what to look for a pin. She covers how to press correctly not to distort a block. The formulas for calculating and cutting shapes for blocks me greatly when I designed my own quilts. I also like the projects the book. Quilting classes are hard to come by where I live. This book is wonderful for the "self taught", best I've found and it improved my quilting. It is also a great reference book to have on hand for trouble shooting. It also makes a great design aid for you if you want to design your own quilt using more than just rectangles. I highly recommend it.

good reference to rotary cutting for blocks
Extremely useful in rotary cutting all your pieces in a block w/o using TEMPLATES!!! The information has enabled me to graph out, figure out the measurements and rotary cut pieces for illustrations or pictures of block patterns(that have no instructions or are the wrong size). I already made 8 blocks. Plus the 2 pages on how to cut with the grain helped w/ keeping the blocks squared. I wish I had found this book before purchasing alot of other beginner books. This one covers rotary cutting, piecing,pressing, and finishing. Plus all the other sound adivce she gives. Also there are projects-easy to feathered star. Good illustrations, color photos. Also rotary cutting illustrations for lefty. It saved me alot of frustration and time, made quilting enjoyable.