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Old 12-23-2015, 03:19 PM
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I could never get the knack for FMQ on my domestic and I found after any session I had horrible neck and shoulder pain from being so tensed up. And I found it incredibly frustrating with larger quilts. I would do straight line quilting on wall hangings but anything larger than 60" square I hand quilted and any shape that really mattered I also hand quilted. Many of my early quilts had a mix of machine and hand quilting. Then I discovered longarm quilting on a rack and a whole new world opened up for me. I love long arm free motion quilting because to me it is more like the natural way of drawing by moving the machine over the surface as opposed to having to move the sandwich under a stationary needle. I am always in awe of the people who can do such beautiful FMQ on a domestic or sitdown extended arm machine.
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