Originally Posted by ckcowl
if your machine allows you to quilt satisfactorly- you are happy with it- it certainly is ADEQUATE! you do not need to buy a different machine- just because someone else has a larger one than yours= there are lots of international award winning- famous quilters who quilt wonderful quilts with a very basic domestic sewing machine- the machine will not do the work for you - any machine you master will be adequate for you- just because you see pictures of larger machines that should not diminish the value of what you have.
Good advice - but - I wasn't going to go out and buy another machine. Just looking at what others have, especially the smaller ones, gives me courage when I am wrestling my own project under my machine.
Last year I met Paula Nadelstern and found it to be absolutely amazing to hear what limited space and size she works with. It is almost unthinkable. It is like making the impossible possible.
Soooo, big and flashy isn't absolutely necessary.