PPWilkerson

I am completing a FMQ class on line with Leah Day. Very reasonable and has been fun to do also. I have taken a couple of FMQ classes at a LQS and feel like I am really learning something online. This online class is a block a week and then we will be joining them with sashing at the end. I have a Janome MC9700, can't afford a LA plus no place to put one if I had it. FMQ is not the easiest thing I have ever done and right at the beginning my neck and shoulders gave me fits. Guess they have gotten used to the idea as that problem is quiet for the time being!! Next I will try wine!! However, it may be cheaper to buy a LA (prefer a wine that is a little more expensive--don't have much of that either).

purplefiend

I quilt all of my quilts with a Viking Sapphire 875 and a Bernina 930 for the smaller quilts. I cannot afford to pay a LA quilter.
Sharon

QultingaddictUK

Here in the UK we do not have many LA quilters and definitely do not own them as they are far too large for our type of homes so I bought a lovely Elna 7200 about 8 years ago, recently upgraded to the new 730 and I do all my own FMQ and have made quilts up to King size, after making many smaller quilts and now have no problems. Leah Day is my hero as she does ALL her wonderful FMQ on DMs so go on ladies save mega bucks and do your own, you get a lot more satisfaction in doing all of your quilt yourself. With apologies to those ladies who make a small living from finishing quilts for you talented ladies

dmnorden

Amen. They have my respect and admiration. I only tried to finish a quilt on my domestic one time to decide that there had to be a better way. I started with a mid arm, and recently upgraded to a long arm. This is heaven!!!

FURBALLS

I also can't afford a LA so do all my FMQ on my Domestic.

shirleyd

Very funny comments on quilting on DSMs! I had to laugh. I also have to quilt on a DSM and have done several queen size quilts. It isn't easy wrestling that much fabric through a 6-7" throat but it can be done. Lots of pushing and pulling, stopping to rearrange and go again, and sadly, ripping out bobbles. But I don't have room for a longarm even if I could afford one and don't want the expense of sending it out to LAer. So after doing a large quilt, I do a few smaller projects like table and bed runners. I do think some of the beautiful works of art some very talented people do should be done by a LA but my quilts aren't that skilled.

debbieoh

I so so agree

RugosaB

I have the space, I have the money, but I do not have the 'brain' for a long arm. One of the lasting effects of my traumatic brain injury is I have trouble remembering how to work new things. It seems to me there is an awful lot of new things that have to be learned, and trouble that can be caused by not remembering things, so I have decided my quilting will be done on my DSM.
My dear husband has made a WONDERFUL large table for my machine, along with a WONDERFUL sewing room to enjoy my hobby. Both of these things make it possible
Hey, I just feel extremely blessed to have retained my sewing knowledge. I probably will never employ a long arm quilter because I would not feel like I made the quilt. (this is just my personal opinion, for ME only)

When my daughter was 3 there was a 6 mo period that we were not allowed to say the word 'help.' Her comment was always "Monca do it self!" with a scream. (that's how she said her name, Monica) I guess it was an inherited trait.

Something I learned a few years ago was cutting the batting in a quilt to make it more manageable - this really helps