Originally Posted by quiltingcurious
It would be great to see how someone maneuvers the quilt on the 301 to do FMQ.
This is exactly how I use the 301, even though it's a 15-91 in the pictures.
Heap your quilt on the cabinet and a table behind the cabinet and if possible, on a table to the left of your cabinet.
Push the area you will start with under the foot and smooth out an area that you can keep nice and taut around the foot. The rest of the quilt will just be heaped up around that center area where you're stitching.
As you get that area quilted, you just shift the heaps around and make sure that you can keep that center area taut and free of drag from the rest of the quilt.
I agree that you shouldn't roll your quilt - that is a major fight compared to just piling it up and leaving it loose. Yes, it can get tricky when the area under the arm is stuffed - but the 301 has a pretty large area and a king size should present no problem at all. :)
Hope that helps! :)
I thought I had a picture of the center of the quilt that shows the table on the left and the heap in front of the cabinet. I'll try to find that for you. It looks impossible when you are doing that center part, but after that it gets a lot easier.
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This is near the outer edge - the quilt was about 90" square when I started this part of the quilting - before I put the borders on.
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