Cutie Frame question
 

I have looked at other posts concerning the Cutie Frame but have not seen a post from anyone who is actually using a Cutiie Frame. I looked at one at quilt show this weekend and gave it a test drive and was impressed (thinking about purchasing), it had a stitch regulator on it which I would probably also buy. Would love to hear from anyone who owns and uses this frame about pros and cons.

I'm following as I have been looking into them and am very interested as to what others think. I especially want to be able to take it with me in our 5th wheel when traveling.

I will be following. I purchased a Cutie and it was just delivered today. I can't wait to try it!

Can't wait to hear how you like it. Just had email this morning from Grace Co. with a link to a Facebook group for Cutie Frame quilters which I will be checking out, it's called Cutie Quilters.

Read thru the assembly instructions today - all 50 pages! I hope to have it assembled and ready to go by this weekend.

I got a cutie frame a few months ago. Also got Grace 15R. I love the frame. I don't have room for a big frame and the cutie solved the problem. I have it on a Husky adjustable height table because I have to move it around in my sewing room. Works great. I'm still in practice mode, but I'm getting there.

Well I did it. After going to quilt show I went to store in Everett and tried it again and asked a ton of questions about everything I could think of. Went home watched a ton of videos and joined the Cutie Quilters on Facebook and decided to buy it. The store had an online special $689 for Cutie and $389 for Stitch Regulator and they gave me the online price. While I was checking out the salesperson asked if I would be interested in an open box frame that a customer had gotten, put together and then decided she wanted a larger frame and it would be another $50 off. Win, win got to take home with me that day and it was all assembled and cheaper. I am still waiting for my stitch regulator and the side bungee cords but it is on my table and I am making leaders tomorrow and going to put an ugly quilt top on and give it a go.

In my humble opinion, unless I was strictly going to do baby /toddler/ throws quilts, I wouldn't have one. Simply not enough space on this quilting table to do a bed sized quilt. I suppose you could do a bed quilt by quilting two half's of one separately and then joining them together as a Quilt As You Go style. But how would you get the quilting lines to match up where the half's meet?

I believe it's a hoop style frame so a larger quilt can be moved then clamped to allow for working on the next unquilted section until the whole quilt is done. At least this is my understanding.

Hemlock, that is correct.

FYI - watch FB Marketplace for barely used ones. I've seen several Cutie frames listed each of the past 4 weeks on a couple of the quilting/longarm For Sale groups.

I just got my grace qzone Queen, not the Cutie, but I assume they are similar. Im planning on using a Janome 1600P with the frame. I got mine all assembled and was eager to load a practice quilt when I discovered you need these special fabric leaders to load the quilt onto the frame. These were not included (no surprise). So now I have to order the leader kit ($190) or make my own, which will require extra wide high quality muslin. I dont know if the Cutie has same issue, but you might want to skip to the end of the manual to check it out. You may need to order some additional extras to make it work.

These frames (Cutie and QZone) use clips to hold the quilt to the frame. The Cutie is essentially a table top version of the QZone hoop frame. I responded to your other topic but the clips are supposed to be included with the frame (even the Queen version of the QZone), according to Grace's website.

The Qzone Queen and the Cutie are different in that the Cutie is a hoop style frame and the QZone Queen is a long arm style frame that you attach with leaders and roll.

Watson

Actually, Grace Company lists the QZone queen as using quilt clips and side bungie clamps (and not rolling the quilt on the takeup bar as you go) as the standard method, with fabric leaders as an option. So they kind of market the Queen as a convertible frame - clips or leaders with the default being clips.

Grace QZone Queen Frame

Moving your Quilt on Cutie Frame
 

When working on a quilt larger than the frame I leave my needle down, unclip and gently slide the quilt over. The quilt machine will move with the quilt so I can position to where I can start again and reclamp the quilt and continue sewing from where I stopped.

Very well described for moving the quilt to reposition. I bought the Cutie after my original post and having been using it with my Juki TL2010 on quilt sizes up to a full sized. I have a king scheduled to start soon I still have to decide on the borders. This fall I was chosen to be one of 100 to test the new version of the Cutie frame the Cutie Breeze. It eliminates the elastic straps that everyone has a love hate relationship with and instead of the underneath handles it has a upper carriage with handles like a longarm. Would be nice to have something larger but space limits me. The quilt pictured is 56 x 64 and I just finished it last week, it took me the week to finish it but I only worked on it for an hour or so a day.

One of the other testers was Chris Machini-Nippert of Rose City Originals he just finished a king size on the Breeze using his Juki TL2010 and has posted his quilting of it on his YouTube page - https://www.youtube.com/@rosecityoriginals.

Also Bonnie Kempe at Quilting On A Thread https://www.youtube.com/@quiltingonathread, she is also administrator for the Cutie Quilters facebook page.