Why do you need more than one rotary cutter?

Rotary cutters are necessary in quilter's world and who doesn't have more than one?! And I don't mean more than one size (although that is true as well!), I mean more than one of the same size cutter! If you are like me, I'm always anxious to try out the newest and greatest rotary cutter and therefore my little drawer that holds all my cutters is rather full.

But it can be an advantage to having more than one rotary cutter. One thing I do is keep one cutter with a sharp blade for cutting fabrics. Another one has a dull blade that I use for cutting paper and plastic templates. When my fabric cutting blade gets dull and hard to cut with fabric, I insert a new blade and recycle the old blade to the paper cutting rotary cutter.

Not only can I get more use out of my blades, but it is much more efficient to cut out paper patterns and templates from template plastic with a rotary cutter than a pair of scissors. But I'm still able to keep my rotary cutter blade sharp for cutting fabric.

So the next time you are quilt shopping and see a brand new rotary cutter, but think to yourself that you already have one and you really don't need another, just consider using a second one for cutting templates. What better excuse for another neat rotary cutter?! :)