Originally Posted by AngelinaMaria
I got a Babylock Espire and it comes with a lot of fancy stitches and has a larger throat so I was excited that I would be able to do most of my own quilting.
However, as I played around with the different stitches most are on a scale too small to use for quilting and almost all of them have a stitch length really short (and very tight) that doesn't seem to be appropriate for quilting either. I have checked and there is no way to adjust the stitch length on the decorative stitiches.
Is your machine like this, and if so, do you use these for quilting anyway or do you just stick to "in the ditch" straight stitch or FM?
I have Vikings and they have needle position options as well as length options. Some are less adjustable than others. Sometimes I do use them for an alternative to SID. I recently got a long arm machine so am not using the sewing machine for quilting any more. I actually used the embroidery unit to quilt more than using the fancy stitches.