AccuQuilt Go and Templates

[View My TQS Profile mellymoo]

I have finally treated myself to a late christmas present and bought the Go Baby cutter along with Sarah's two Heather Feather dies. (Could not resist) I was just wondering if anyone with some experiance of these cutters could confirm how "tight" the dies fit through the rollers ? I have had a little practice and was surprised how tight the fit was with just one piece of material (& cutting mat). Thinking about it I suppose the rollers do have to press the dies very firmly to make the cuts !! I would appreciate anyone's view on this (I would hate to be forcing and break my lovely new dies and cutter)

[View My TQS Profile JudithA]

Hi Mellymoo,
I think it has to be a fairly tight fit to prevent slippage as everything goes through the machine. My GO is a very tight fit unless I cut 1 or 2 layers at a time. With carpel tunnel, it is easier for me to turn the handle if I don't put more than 2 layers of fabric in it. I was a little cautious about buying a GO! since I have shoulder problems and not much hand strength, but I was pleasantly surprised at how easy mine is to use.

Judy Austin

[View My TQS Profile lsipes]

I have finally treated myself to a late christmas present and bought the Go Baby cutter along with Sarah's two Heather Feather dies. (Could not resist) I was just wondering if anyone with some experiance of these cutters could confirm how "tight" the dies fit through the rollers ? I have had a little practice and was surprised how tight the fit was with just one piece of material (& cutting mat). Thinking about it I suppose the rollers do have to press the dies very firmly to make the cuts !! I would appreciate anyone's view on this (I would hate to be forcing and break my lovely new dies and cutter)

Once you break it in a bit, it will get better. I was really shocked when I got mine too!

[View My TQS Profile winkydink13]

I received a Go Cutter and some dies for Xmas and think it's great, but don't seem to be able to get the Heather Feather 1 & 2 in Australia and I think they are quite large, would someone be able to fill me in with the size please as I think the postage to Australia would be quite expensive

[View My TQS Profile pam7040]

Barbara, I have just googled and come up with this shop in Oz which seems to sell them. I hope that it helps.

http://www.cuttingart.com.au/go-dies-overview

[View My TQS Profile winkydink13]

Barbara, I have just googled and come up with this shop in Oz which seems to sell them. I hope that it helps.

http://www.cuttingart.com.au/go-dies-overview

Thank you so much for that

[View My TQS Profile mellymoo]

Thankyou for your reasurance ladies, I will continue my cutting practice !

[View My TQS Profile PamHeinecke]

Sarah, Are you saying that the Bedazzled embroidery will work with this quilt? That would be super!
Pam, an Accuquilt Go! Dealer.

[View My TQS Profile SarahVedeler]

Pam - Not sure what I have said that might make you believe that the GO! Be Dazzled designs will work with this quilt. They will not. The applique uses my Heather Feather dies (not the CD!) and there will be basic embroidery in the hoop included with your TQS membership. Anyone who wishes to can also purchase an "embroidered applique" version of the applique - which will be available June 1 in time for the month 6.

Kind regards,
Sarah

[View My TQS Profile PamHeinecke]

Thanks Sarah,
My mind was racing and I really meant Heather's Feathers, not Bedazzeled. A group of us are starting a Bedazzled BOM and I had that on my mind as I was looking at Sedona Star. Oops, lol!

[View My TQS Profile LisaWantsToKnow]

I don't believe in stitch and trim in the hoop! It is incredibly time consuming, and limits the possibilities for edge finishing. Having said that, the embroidery in the hoop that comes with the BOM has a simple satin stitch outline. However, there will be an optional (to be purchased) embroidered applique version available which will have more stuff going on - and potentially some different edge finishes.

My preferred method of applique, in the hoop or not, has pre-cut applique shapes. Templates are provided so that you can trace and cut the shapes by hand. Alternatively, you can use the AccuQuilt GO! dies to do the cutting. Whichever way you look at it, if time is important to you (i.e. you'd rather be sewing that cutting applique shapes) cutting the shapes out ahead of time (which you can do while watching a movie if you're doing it with scissors and can be done in about an hour with the GO!) is much faster than trimming in the hoop. But this is just my opinion!

Kind regards,
Sarah

Hi Sarah!

Thanks for doing one of your gorgeous designs as a BOM on The Quilt Show! I, like many others I've seen posting on TQS, am wondering where the "basic satin stitch machine embroidery appliqué files" that you have mentioned here and in June's instructions as being "included", actually are? Did a detail get dropped when the webmaster was putting in all the hotlinks for June? Can't find VP3, or ART (for example) files to download...

Please, can you help clear this up? I'm hoping that by quoting your post, you'll get an e-notification, lol, of this post.

Mille grazie!

[View My TQS Profile SarahVedeler]

Hi Lisa,

The web tech didn't understand what the zip file was I sent containing all the embroidery designs, so he didn't post it Lilo (the one with the power to make things happen on the web site) is aware of the missing designs and is working on rectifying the situation.

Kind regards,
Sarah