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Appa Valley
Thank you everyone for your answers so far. Keep 'em comin!
There is a quilt show coming up in March that I will hopefully go to, so maybe they'll have a couple dealers. Now would I take the same things to a quilt show for testing machines as I would for a store? And also, when you buy a machine at show then do you pay the full amount or do you still get to pay in payments? What do you do if that particular dealer is a few hours away from where you live?
I mostly just piece quilts right now, my machine throat is so small that I don't even bother trying to quilt anything on it. So most of my quilt are tied or hand-quilted. But I would like to learn FMQ. And I've never done much applique but that is another thing I would like to learn more about. As far as machine embroidery, I'm not sure about that one. I think I would like to do that, but then I don't know how much I would actually use it. Only because with my current machine it doesn't have that capability so I've never had to opportunity to machine embroider.
Show models are discounted quite a bit, and you can get some good deals at , how ever you need to check is warranty work can be done locally if needed. Do keep in mind that some dealers won't service machines not purchased from them because I have seen quite a bit of this in the past year of people having problems getting their machines taken care off when they purchased from a dealer out of the area. so if you end up needing any warranty work done and the dealer is out of the area it could be a problem.