Originally Posted by
Val in IN
My opinion? Use what you have and can afford. Beautiful quilts don't know what kind of machines they were made with and they don't care. Neither should we.
I agree. I can not afford an expensive machine so I bought a Singer Quilter costing on sale $300. It makes very nice quilts or is that me making the quilts. I am sure that I would make the same mistakes on an expensive machine as I do on my "cheap" one. I think this snobbery also extends to some owners of the high cost machine besides the LQS. It is the quilt maker and not the machine that make a good quilt. Just ignore negative comments or go to another shop. Or better still mention you experience to the shop owner to make her aware (unless of course the teach was the shop owner) .