Originally Posted by
Lv2sew2011
I just traded in the Juki 200QI for a king quilter I was not happy with the Juki 2000 QI the neck I think that's what they called it was just to darn small for FMQ...Other than that it was OK....
This may be the case if you are trying to quilt on a frame--since the quilt gets rolled up inside the throat when frame quilting, the actual quilting space front to back limits the size of motif you can use. However, for sit down quilting, the Juki or the Janome both have enough throats space to FMQ large quilts just fine. I have the PQ1500s which is the same size as the two the OP mentioned and I've found the space to be plenty big enough to do all sizes of quilts-- the secret is to squish your quilt into the throat rather than rolling it and to have good support to your left and behind the machine so the quilt doesn't hang off the table and cause drag. The only size quilt I haven't done on my machine is a King sized and that's just because I haven't made a top that big.
Rob