Originally Posted by
Sewnoma
If you can, just shove that puppy into your machine! I don't know how big a Viking Rose is, but I FMQ'd a 120" square quilt on my Janome 6600, that has a 9-inch throat. Worked fine and that was my first ever FMQ quilt.
I don't roll up my quilt, I just cram it in there and flatten out the immediate area I'll be working on. The rest of the quilt puddles around the machine. Just flatten your work area as you go and make sure you don't have a corner of the quilt sneaking in underneath. Support behind and to the side of the machine helps greatly.
I always thought rolling them up would be a pain, now I see wadding is permitted I may try that myself, before I was put off by having to try and roll it up and work with it. Good luck and I am rooting for you too.