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11-08-2014, 02:28 PM
#12
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota
Posts: 1,925
Haven't sent any out yet - BUT - am seriously considering it. I have too many tops that need to be finished and am thinking a longarmer will be able to help me get back to square one. I'm currently working my way through the Craftsy class - Creative Quilting with Your Walking Foot - and will be able to finish quite a few quilts on my own.
11-08-2014, 02:43 PM
#14
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
Posts: 16,105
I do my own. Have tied couple small ones, repaired a couple small ones and quilted a crib size. Haven't done anything larger than crib. That was a cross hatch and about 10 years ago. Also made a diaper stacker. I quilted the fabric then cut the pattern. It was easier for me.
11-08-2014, 02:43 PM
#15
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 3,255
I do FMQ on my home sewing machine. I like doing my own start to finish. Sometimes it is a struggle but for the most part, in the end I'm happy with it. I'm not a show quilter, nor a perfectionist, so it works for me.
11-08-2014, 02:45 PM
#16
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,312
I send any bed size quilts to a Long Arm pro. I had gotten to a point where I would dread quilting a bed size quilt , because I just wrestled with it on my machine. It was very liberating... I could make quilts in very large sizes without thinking about the dreaded wrestling match that was to follow the piecing. The Long Arm Pro's I have worked with have done far more amazing quilting than I would.
For me its honoring , the sometimes 100 or more hours of piecing that I put into a quilt , to have someone who skills can do it justice quilt it.
For me its honoring , the sometimes 100 or more hours of piecing that I put into a quilt , to have someone who skills can do it justice quilt it.
11-08-2014, 03:17 PM
#18
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: So Plymouth, NY
Posts: 2,502
I can no longer handle hand quilting anything larger than a full. Can't baste anything bigger and my hands just won't hold up. I send maybe one quilt a year to a LAQ that does a lovely, simple job and is relatively affordable.
11-08-2014, 03:20 PM
#19
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Posts: 1,025
Since I didn't start quilting until I was 79, Queen size or larger, I have long arm quilted by a gal close to home who does it for a reasonable price. There is no way I could wrestle a large quilt through my small sewing machine. I love to quilt small items and enjoy all the FMQ practice I can get. I wish I had started this hobby years ago when I see all the wonderful work of forum members.
11-08-2014, 03:22 PM
#20
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Southern California
Posts: 6,254
Right now currently send them out, but am working this year heavily on getting my FMQ skills up to par to be able to do my own because it is too expensive to send out. I currently have 4 almost 5 finished quilt tops which will be about 600+ dollars to have someone else quilt. I don't have 600+ dollars for that so here they sit unfinished as I am a perfectionist and refuse to ruin my gorgeous tops with my subpar quilting
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