Wow I Like That

I recently had fallen in love with free motion quilting and didn't have enough money to buy a long arm. Actually until recently I didn't even know there was such a thing as a long arm or mid arm. But gosh, they cost a fortune which I didn't have to spend. But if there is a will, there is a way. I made my own mid arm free motion machine from a vintage darning machine. It is not pretty but it is fast and strong and it doesn't have a feed dog and will stitch anything I want it to stitch.

Sorry I don't know how to resize the pic. Can someone advise? Thanks.

Debbie

Stitchnripper

Nifty set up from what I can see. Do you like the way it works?

Rodney

If the picture fits then you're ok. I hit "view image" and I don't see any more that was cut off. Is the machine set in a table? You can set the image size on most cameras or there's a free program called "pixresizer" you can use.
A couple more shots of the whole machine would be welcome.

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Rodney

tessagin

Whatever works for you is all that matters!

Cari-in-Oly

Looks like a great solution to me! The first few quilts I made, I didn't know all the "rules" yet, good thing the quilt police don't know where I live. I left the feed dogs up, left the straight stitch foot on, and still did a passable job on my quilts. What I want to know now is, how does it work for you?

Cari

pjnesler

I'd like to hear and see more of your setup - we all can learn more here every day, thanks for sharing.
To resize your picture you can open it up in the "PAINT" program that usually is part of your startup programs, Locate the "RESIZE" button, see the option to resize by percentage. Enter a number to resize by. You'll probably want to experiment with what will work best for you. Try 50 for starters.

yobrosew

Please, please sow video using it for quilting?!?! I love your thinking outside the box.