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Judy Martin's Ultimate Rotary Cutting Reference

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This book will answer ALL your rotary cutting questions, and even ones you haven't thought of yet. Featuring simple charts that take the math out of rotary cutting. Also lists yardage figures, and Shares the secrets experts use for perfect results. This will be one of the best books you have ever invested in.

If you are mathematically challanged, this book will get you out of trouble and save fabric too. It gives measurements and instructions for cutting difficult patch sizes. A must-have reference book.

This book Helps a great deal if you do not have all the templates for quilting. Her book explains how to use just a plain ruler to make all the shape you could ever need to make most quilt block there are.

This book gave me, a long-time quilter, some good hints and techniques that work better than what I'd been using. I'd highly recommend it.

There are so many ways to quilt, so many systems, and not all work for everyone. However, this author seams (pun intended) to believe in the old saying..."My way or the highway". She is very disparaging of any method other than hers, bringing an assertive and unpleasant tone to the book. Certainly not an atmosphere conducive to learning, especially something that can be so enjoyable. I'm sorry I wasted my money!

I have to say, I was quite dissapointed by "Judy Martin's Ultimate Rotary Cutting Reference". The first thing that dissapointed me was the lack of illustrations. I saw pages and pages of nothing but print (17 pages, to be exact). I thought, "Well, maybe there are some great explanations about rotary cutting in there.", so I read. The first thing I came accross that I didn't understand was how to "subcut". I must cut, and then I must subcut. I never did find out how I was supposed to subcut. Judy Martin states that one method of cutting is better than another because then you can "backtack" the quilt pieces. Who backstitches quilt pieces? I don't, and my quilts never unravel. That's why I quilt them.
There are many illustrated pages of shapes and all the different sizes to cut them. But if you have a pattern, it seems to me that it would be easier to photocopy the pattern to the size you want, and then just cut the pieces out as templates to cut along the strip of fabric you've rotary cut.
There are one or two useful tips, but other than that, it seems to me to be a useless book.