Originally Posted by asabrinao

I am so tired of wrestling with big quilts on a DSM. I have come to dread the quilting process because I come away with an aching body and subpar quilting. After piecing a top so carefully, it's always a little dispiriting to get to the quilting phase and feel like I'm undermining my project with sloppy and uneven stitches, puckers, etc. I never have this problem when I do a small quilt--like a table runner or a 20-inch square for a pillow.

I can't afford a long arm machine or to send my quilt tops to be professionally quilted. Even if I could, I really Want to like quilting on my DSM.

Then it occurred to me: why haven't I tried a quilt-as-you-go process?

I'm curious to hear from anyone who has tried this process. What works about this process? What are its limitations? It seems like the perfect solution to my problem--but if it truly solved the cumbersome task of quilting larger quilts on a DSM, then everyone would do it, right? So, there have to be reasons why some people don't.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

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