I have been making a lot of little skirts for my toddler girl. The patterns I use are mostly made up of big rectangles. I love, love, love using the rotary cutter for all of these straight lines rather than using shears. The process goes so much faster with a rotary cutter. I also used it to cut out the pieces to recover a set of couch pillows - 12 in all. It would have taken forever to cut out with scissors, but so fast with the rotary cutter. This one really is the right size for cutting fabric, not too big, not too small. The blade has stayed sharp after many uses, but fabric is easier on a blade than paper. I did buy some replacement blades, but I am still using the original and it has been 9 months with no decrease in cutting ease. I am thinking about buying the 28mm size for paper cutting as well