Lacelady

I ordered it at the Festival of Quilts in August, and paid a deposit at the time. The quoted a price of $5000 initially, but with £300 off as a show price. In the UK it was delivered free, so they deducted that amount from the shipping costs to Ireland. The best part was after it had arrived, and they then rang to tell me they had at last received invoices for these machines. Apparently when I tried mine, it was still a prototype and they didn't have final figures. They REFUNDED $700, I was bowled over.

I know it's dearer than in the US, but then it still has to be shipped to the UK, and it is all cleared for European standards, and runs on 220volts.

I have no problem at all sitting at the pointy end - the part the needle gets mounted into (sorry, forgot the name) is taller than on my Bernina, so I don't have any problem trying to see, and the lighting system is brilliant - I think there are over twenty LED's. I've just taken some pics, so I'll try and post them here soon.

The winder will wind two bobbins at once, though I have only done one at a time, and it's a lot easier than the one shown on the HQ website - no real adjusting at all. It also has a longer lead on it than the owners on the HQ Yahoo site were grumbling about.

I think if I could change anything at all, I would have put perhaps another two inches of table along the front, so that there would be a little more room to rest my forearms when doing micro stippling, but that might just be me. It is possible to buy extra leaves that clip on to either side of the table, but I don't think I will need one, even when doing a big quilt. So far, I have only quilted lap sized or smaller ones. I am working up to a bigger one.