Long Arm Question
#11
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: 1000 miles from nowwhere
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i pin the back to the take up roller ....leader grip [same as red snapper but clear so you can see where the end of the quilt is ] the bottom of the back and bottom of the front ,,,,,then i baste the top to the back
#13
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Central Iowa
Posts: 2,347
I pin my quilts at first I got stuck but now it does not happen very often. I took LA quilting lessons and they had the zipper but you still have to pin the quilt to the zipper or baste it on I find pinning is quicker and cheaper the snappers I really have not tried but I am sure there is also a learning curve to them
#14
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Northern Indiana
Posts: 2,679
Thanks
#16
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Carroll, Iowa
Posts: 3,487
My frame came with the Red Snappers but I don't really care for them. If you have to start at the very top of your backing due to lack of enough fabric, the red snappers bind the machine up till you get past them. I have a deadbar on my machine so they have to travel under the deadbar and upward. That's about a 4-6" of the backing fabric that's wasted. I'm too lazy to take the red snappers off so made up some narrower leaders to attach the backing to and then use the red snappers to attach to the frame. I know that seems silly but sometimes I do use the red snappers, other times I don't. I have gone to using the magnets on the belly bar as I float my batting and top.
#18
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,657
My frame came with the Red Snappers but I don't really care for them. If you have to start at the very top of your backing due to lack of enough fabric, the red snappers bind the machine up till you get past them. I have a deadbar on my machine so they have to travel under the deadbar and upward. That's about a 4-6" of the backing fabric that's wasted. I'm too lazy to take the red snappers off so made up some narrower leaders to attach the backing to and then use the red snappers to attach to the frame. I know that seems silly but sometimes I do use the red snappers, other times I don't. I have gone to using the magnets on the belly bar as I float my batting and top.
#20
I don't know what kind of magnets Snooze uses, but I bought an 18" magnet bar (the kind used to hang tools on a wall) from Harbor Freight that I use on the belly bar when I float tops. It was pretty inexpensive (can't remember but I'm sure it was $10 or less) and is so strong that I never even took it out of the plastic package. Just put it on plastic and all (the package makes it easier to remove from the belly bar - the magnet really is that strong).
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