Skittl1321

I didn't get a long arm, but it was how I justified my upgraded sewing machine. I never finished quilts, because I didn't want to pay $200+ to get the quilted. I figured I would need to do X quilts to "pay" for the machine. I did that in the first year.

I think the problem with actually trying to make the money to pay for the machine, is that there is a learning curve. You can't expect to load a paying customer's quilt as your first quilt. It will take time to be able to do excellent work, and then you can start accepting payment for quilts. But if you want one anyway, taking in quilts is a good way to help make the payments. (In one of her books Karen McTavish mentions when she got her longarm she justified she could do a quilt a day, and wouldn't that be a great income. That assumption turned out to be totally not true.)