Long arm
#2
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Guntersville, AL Live in Canton
Posts: 29
Since I was here last I got a wonderful frame from the Amish. Best frame I've ever had. Soooo easy to use and holds the fabric tight. I am halfway finished with the quilt that I am doing now. Yes! So many patterns such little time!
#3
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
Posts: 2,795
I have a long arm table and a sewing machine that I use to piece my quilts with but it goes with the table. It's not a LA sewing machine, just a deep throat. I have had the table for two years and it's still in its boxes. I send my quilts out to a gal who LA quilts them for me. I have no idea how to LAQ at all. It seems a lot of gals on this board have LAs. They can be very expensive...like the price of a car...but you can also buy used ones. I don't have the room to set my table up in my house and even if I did, I would use it as a coat rack. I wish I had a good friend who LA quilted who could teach me and then, just maybe, I'd set my table up and put my sewing machine on it and try it out. But I know nothing about it. I know you have to attach your quilt to the table in a specific way and I've seen a couple of youtube demonstrations on it and I realize why I pay so much to my LAQ. She deserves it.
#4
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Southeast Wisconsin
Posts: 1,070
#5
No, you are not the only one! I've been back and forth as to whether I even really want one. It was very encouraging when I recently saw the film "Stitched" and noticed that the Houston competitors they featured were NOT using long arms either.
#6
I don't have a long arm either, but I DO NOT want one. Do you realize how many quilts you can pay to get quilted for you for the cost of a long arm. And you don't have to do the work. I have no room for one anyway and don't really want to learn how to do it.
#8
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 12,861
thousands and thousands of quilters do not have a long-arm---
and thousands of quilters who make fabulous large quilts- sell patterns, books, travel the world teaching- do not own a long arm- they quilt on their domestic machines, hand quilt & send out their quilts to their favorite quilters-
not everyone even has any interest in the quilting part of creating quilts- they like to piece, create tops- owning a long arm is a minority market.
and thousands of quilters who make fabulous large quilts- sell patterns, books, travel the world teaching- do not own a long arm- they quilt on their domestic machines, hand quilt & send out their quilts to their favorite quilters-
not everyone even has any interest in the quilting part of creating quilts- they like to piece, create tops- owning a long arm is a minority market.
#9
I would love to have a LA, but right now the budget doesn't allow for one. I am making do with a Janome 6600 and fmq, but I struggle as my mind can't make the switch from "moving the pencil" to draw, to moving the fabric under the needle. I can do basic stippling or simple feathers and while they aren't anything near as pretty as what I have in some of the quilts on this board, they are acceptable. I would love to watch someone else who does fmq on their DSM, because I know there are tips that they could share with me. So now, while I dream of owning a LA, I keep practicing.
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