Originally Posted by
Glenn
Joe I agree with Nancy. I find it just as easy to piece with a treadle and it is better for me I seem to have better control of the 1/4 seams. I do use the two spools when piecing a large quilt it can hold lots of bobbin thread in the can. The 319 is also great to treadle when piecing. But then again I have been using a treadle for 40 + years and it comes natural for me. Like Nancy said you need to practice. At the moment I am trying to finish three quilts started. So much to do with little time.
BTW Nancy how to you like sewing with the Jones HC? I like mine and easy to use.
Skip
Skip, right now my twin Jones' HC's are sitting on a shelf. I just got my long bobbins from the UK a couple days ago. I also received the needles last week, so I haven't had time to try sewing with either of them.
I was so stressed out last night trying to get the tension right on my HQ 16 long arm that I almost dismantled it! I have no problems with tensions on any of my 50+ vintage machines, but that stupid long arm is a pain in the butt! Every time I try to quilt a quilt with that stupid machine, I have to mess with the tension. Even with that, I never get a really nice stitch like any of my vintage machines! I wish I could just throw out that stupid HQ 16 and do all my quilts FM on the dinning room table, but when I do a king sized quilt (the one on the LA table now is 107"s by 115"s), it takes hours and hundreds of pins to pin the quilt for FM on the living room floor. The LA, when working, is so much faster and easier on your back for very large quilts! Why is it that the HQ has to be adjusted with every quilt - I get the tension ok with one quilt, and the next one has birds nests! Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Sorry folks, I am just so use to vintage machines now - they just do their jobs every time!
Nancy