Judylee2

I bought the Martelli rings in both sizes. Keep in mind that I am the lblessed owner of a Gammill Longarm. I have MS so there are days when sit down quilting is a must. The Martelli rings are helpful when your design fits inside the circle! You can continuous line quilt that way but like stated earlier, a total pain to reposition but no more so than without it. I say whatever tool makes it easier and smoother for you is a winner!

solstice3

I bought the Martinelli set of 2. I don't use them that much

madamekelly

I keep seeing references to people using kitchen green scrubbys to hold onto the quilt for hand quilting. My be worht a tey....

Doggramma

I used to use the halo thing. It was kind of helpful at first because I was new to FMQ and I was going slow. Soon, though, I found it too restrictive/too small of an area to be quilted. I now use the quilting gripper gloves. These work well, making it easy to control where to quilt.

Onebyone

I like the Halo for small design quilting. It's not made for big quilting designs.

KyStitcher

For small quilting designs, yeah, I can say the ring helped but I feel I wasted money 'cause I seldom use it. Restricts me too much, but I guess it's just what ever you feel comfortable with or get used to. My teacher has a sit-down mid-arm machine and that's where I used it a few times. Now the halo lives in a drawer in my sewing desk