Hats off to those who quilt Without a Longarm
02-24-2014, 05:23 PM
#12
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Location: Louisville, KY
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DH kept saying he wanted to buy me a long arm. First of all I don't think he realizes the room required for that and we don't have the room. Instead DH bought me a Brother Dream Weaver XE and it quilts like a dream. I wouldn't want to quilt on anything else!
02-24-2014, 05:24 PM
#13
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Location: Pataskala, OH
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I have done a couple of the QAYG and it seems to work pretty well. I haven't graduated to large quilts yet so it hasn't been that big of a problem on the sewing machine. I too have a limited budget so can't send things out to be quilted. Maybe someday!
02-24-2014, 05:50 PM
#15
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Location: Chandler, AZ
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I have made 3 quilts and am in the middle of 2 more, all done on my Brother XL2600i. It is definitely the most frustrating part of quilting for me, wrestling a heavy quilt in the machine. I may try quilt as you go so I can try some more difficult quilting designs (other than straight line quilting). I haven't tried it yet because the thought of hand stitching the back intimidates me, and I don't like the options to machine stitch the back. I guess I have more quilt wrestling in my future until I get up the guts to try it!
02-25-2014, 02:50 AM
#17
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I just finished quilting a paper pieced quilt on my Janome Horizon 7700 and boy was I sore afterwards. This quilt has by far the most quilting of any quilt I have done before and my back and shoulders felt like they were on FIRE. It didn't help that I set myself a ridiculous time frame to finish it 
I am saving up to buy a long arm, might take me a while, but I will get there.
I am saving up to buy a long arm, might take me a while, but I will get there.
02-25-2014, 04:11 AM
#18
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Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
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I'm with you. I absolutely hated layering the quilt, and I had to quilt in sections because there was no way to get the big quilts that I usually make into that little sewing machine. Longarming has its own set of challenges, but I haven't forgotten that it takes a lot of patience and skill, not to mention stamina, to quilt well on a DSM.
I'm with you. I absolutely hated layering the quilt, and I had to quilt in sections because there was no way to get the big quilts that I usually make into that little sewing machine. Longarming has its own set of challenges, but I haven't forgotten that it takes a lot of patience and skill, not to mention stamina, to quilt well on a DSM.
02-25-2014, 04:20 AM
#19
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Join Date: Sep 2012
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I've learned that time is too short to worry about quilting the "big stuff" so out it goes to a longarm quilter. I'm blessed that I'm able to afford this. I also look at it as income for someone else, so I'm boosting the economy!
02-25-2014, 04:33 AM
#20
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Location: Bluebell
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Call me silly, but I got a King size to FM on a DM. I get along well with FM on my old machines or my new machines for that matter. I have no desire at all for a long arm. Mainly, I don't have the time or the room for one, so no sense in taking that thought any further. I love the finished look on the long arm. The cost of one too, is out of my reach.
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