"Best thing I have ever purchased for the sewing room. These blades are wonderful, you can cut multiple layors at a time, the blades last for ever. Your price was so good I needed to stock up. Thank you"
– Pam Morris, verified customer
You already own a good rotary cutter. That is not the problem.
The problem is the blade that came in the box. The biggest names in rotary cutters do not put their best steel on the blade they ship you, and they have no reason to. The cutter is sold once. The blades are what you come back and buy again, and again, at a price that has very little to do with what they cost to make.
We got tired of paying it. We were quilters buying our own blades at those prices, watching an edge go dull halfway through a project, and reaching for the wallet again. So we stopped buying them and started making our own.
What quilters actually cut with them
We did not run these tests. Quilters did, on their own channels, with their own fabric, and you can watch every one of them.
Mary B lined up three blades on the same cotton and kept adding layers. The cheap blade gave up at four, leaving an edge so frayed she had to cut it again. A brand new name-brand blade reached twelve, but she had to lean on it to get there. Ours went through the same twelve, in her words, easily.
Mary Go Round Quilts cut ten layers in one pass and said it went through like butter. Jackie Loos took eight layers of cotton, then three of batting, then three of denim, and said she barely used any pressure at all. Beth Ann Williams ran five separate tests, including eight layers of tightly woven boutique cotton. Lea Louise put ours side by side with the OLFA Endurance she had been buying for years.
That is what a sharp edge does. It goes through the stack instead of pushing it along.
Why the edge holds
Every blade is titanium coated SKS-7 tungsten steel. The coating is harder than the steel underneath and it cuts friction at the edge, so the edge keeps its shape long after an uncoated blade has rounded off. That is why these blades last far longer than regular blades. It is not a slogan. It is what the coating does.
Less force, and who feels that most
A dull blade makes you push. You press harder, you run the cutter back over the same line to catch the threads it skipped, and by the end of a long session your hand and your wrist know exactly what you have been doing.
If you quilt with arthritis or fibromyalgia, that force is not just tiring. It is often what decides whether you finish the session or put the project away for another day. A sharp edge does the cutting so your hands do not have to, and that is the difference our customers write to us about most.
Lea Louise cutting eight layers of fabric with one of our blades. Watch the pass, then watch the edges it leaves behind. No sawing back and forth. No threads left hanging.
Why ten of them
Think about when you actually notice a blade has gone dull. You are halfway through a stack, the cut skips, and you go back over it. You know exactly what is wrong. And you carry on anyway, because the spare blade is not in the drawer, it is four days away in a delivery van.
That is how most of a quilter's cutting gets done: on a blade she already knows is finished.
Ten blades ends that. You change it the moment it starts to skip, because there is another one right there, and the one after that. No rationing. No deciding whether this cut is worth using up the good blade. You cut with a sharp edge every time, which is the only way any of what you read above is true in practice.
"These blades are awesome! The blades last 10 X longer than regular blades! So worth it!!!"
– Barbara Dolan, verified customer
Ten also brings the price per blade down to a number the big brands cannot come near.
These are 45mm blades, and they drop straight into the rotary cutter you already own. If you cut curves with a 28mm or long stacks with a 60mm, we stock those too.
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Cuts eight to twelve layers in one pass. Tested and filmed by six quilters, on cotton, batting, denim and batik.
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Less force on your hands. The edge does the cutting, so your grip does not have to.
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Titanium coated SKS-7 tungsten steel. A harder cutting edge that resists corrosion and holds its shape through project after project.
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Ten blades in one box. A sharp edge is always within arm's reach, so you change the blade when it needs changing instead of when it is convenient.
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Fits the cutter you already own. Standard 45mm blade with a round centre hole, no adapters and no fiddling.
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The lowest price per blade we offer. Built to outlast the blade you are replacing, priced nowhere near it.
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60 day satisfaction guarantee. Cut with them for two months. If you find a blade that beats ours, tell us and we refund you in full. Keep the blades.
Specifications
- 10 blades per pack
- Size: 45mm
- Round centre hole, the standard fit for rotary cutters
- Titanium coated SKS-7 tungsten steel
- Supplied in 1 plastic storage container
You do not have to take our word for any of it. Six quilters put these blades on camera before you got here. Put one in your cutter, make the first pass, and see what your hands tell you.
