Originally Posted by
k9dancer
A $7000 twenty inch harp is a longarm machine, table mounted or not. Here is their website with that info:
http://www.apqs.com/machines/george/
Would I love to have something like that? Sure, but I have neither the space nor the budget for it. Perhaps I am just a poor relative; do many of you spend that for a home machine?
I was lucky to find a barely used HQ Sweet Sixteen a few years ago that was about the price of a high end domestic. Close to half of that....
I think the categories should involve how the quilt is made --> fabric moving, machine moving -- both of those by a human and machine moving by computer.