Rotary Magic: Great Rotary Cutting Secrets Plus Piecing, Pressing, and Finishing

I ordered several books when I decided to learn to quilt, and found this book to be one of the most practical. In particular, she provides a guide to brand names for rotary cutters, mats, and rulers, which I found to be extremely useful in deciding what to buy. The book is filled to the brim with very practical tips on everything from setting up your sewing room to use of the rotary cutter. The presentation of the material is very concise, with lots of charts and lists presented in an interesting way. This book was very helpful to me as a beginner, but I think it would be useful for intermediate to advanced quilters as well because of all the tips.

This was the first book I bought when I decided to try quilting for the first time. I'm very fortunate that I did. Since the book is easy to read and follow with some of the best illustrations, hints, tips and tricks you'll ever read on quilting, my passion for quilting grew with my progress. With this book I get great results even though I had never quilted before. This is still the book I return to again and again. And if all this wasn't enough, at the back of the book there are (12, I think) wonderful quilt projects to make with great instructions. I highly recommend this book, especially if you are new to quilting. But I think even an experienced quilter will find much in this book to improve her quilts greatly.

I'm not a perfectionist sewer so I figured my attempts at quilting would be laughable. And they were. Thanks to this book, I learned simple, time-saving tricks that made even me, a questionable seamstress, produce great results. This isn't your usual quilting how-to book: it covers EVERY aspect to finish a great quilt top including pointing out common errors before you have a chance to make them. If you only buy one how-to-cut-and-piece book, this is it. For machine quilting, I looked to Robbie and Tony Fanning's book on machine quilting and haven't been disappointed since.

I just began piecing quilts a month ago. I took one beginning class and read this book cover to cover. I have since pieced several wall hanging sized tops, all of which look so good my husband wants me to make each into full bed sized quilts. The instructions are thorough and well illustrated. It gives truly "fool proof" methods for cutting pieces for your own designs in simple to follow steps. I tend to use only proven patterns in all of my crafts (I'm afraid of disaster with my own designs), but with Rotary Magic's help I designed my first project and it came out beautifully. Thank you for such a wonderful addition to my craft library and the beginning of what will now be many years of happy quilting.

I was surprised and delighted to see the content in this book! Easy to understand diagrams using rotary cutting for patterns I hadn't even thought about using it for. It's like a primer for quilting though, with lots of personal tips for organizing and storing materials/notions too. Excellent book.