Hello again -
Something occurred to us when we were getting ready to load a quilt on our frame. We have a Pfaff 1200 GrandQuilter and Imperial frame. It takes longer for us to load the parts of a quilt on the frame and get it ready to quilt than it does to actually do the quilting.
We had a top that was finished and the sandwich was basted together with quilter's safety pins. We got it to that point before we considered buying the quilter, and thought we would quilt it on a sewing machine. We loaded it on the frame on the middle rail (where the quilt top would be), wrapped it around the backing rail, and attached it to the take-up rail. We have good tension on the sandwich; is there any reason we can't quilt this way? It is WAAAYYYY easier to load on the frame this way and we could get a lot more done. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks,
Darren