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Old 05-29-2011, 01:59 PM
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the casual quilter
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Colorado
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Hi and welcome from Colorado, USA.
I used to have a frame that I used with my regular sewing machine. Please bear in mind that this is only my opinion.

I had a Juki YL98E mchine on what was called a Super Quilter frame. I did OK with it as far as stippling or freehand designs on small quilts. It took some practice to make my stitches look presentable, but it ultimately happened. I found that if I wanted to make larger quilts (bed size), the throat of the Juki just wasn't big enough to accomodate the finished roll of quilt as I progressed. By the time I was 3/4 of the way finished I really couldn't quilt well because I could hardly move the machine. Remember that as the quilt gets quilted, the roll in the machine throat area gets bigger and bigger. There is a technique to remove the quilt from the frame at the halfway point, turn it around and reload it and quilt from the "bottom", but it's a real pain to do this. So from my perspective, the machine worked well and the frame did what it was supposed to for small quilts. But once the portion of completed quilt outgrew the machine throat space, life became difficult. I also found (trial and error) that the freehand and stippling had to be pretty small so that whatever I put on the larger quilts would be consistant at the beginning and at the end. Again this was because I ran out of manuvering room as the quilt progressed.
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