Peckish

Just be sure you and the new longarmer have a very detailed conversation about what your expectations and her skills are. There's a story on The Quilt Show's blog about a quilter who used a new longarmer. She made a quilt with southwestern colors and wanted it quilted with a cactus and some coyotes. When she went to pick it up, the cactus was there, but the longarmer explained she didn't know how to quilt coyotes, so she drew them on the quilt with a permanent marker. I think this was a person who had never made or even owned a quilt in her life, and that's NOT the longarmer I'd want working on my quilts!