When your quilt is ready to be quilted, do you hand quilt, machine, or send it out to have someone do it for you?

Hand quilt mostly. Eveything I do myself. Sent one out to be quilted And it Got lost never saw it again. Won't do that again.

I just finished hand quilting an antique quilt top that was given to me. However I send most of my quilt tops to the long armer, and the small ones I do my self on my own Sewing machine. Marge

Sometimes hand, sometimes machine, sometimes both. Never have sent one out, it is too expensive for me here.

Most by machine, very basic SID and a few by hand. Never have tried to send out, I am afraid of the cost :shock:
Sharon

By machine, mostly SID or grid lines. I've had one sent out - it was old and needed more than I could give it.

I just starting to do some hand quilting but I most of the time I rent time on a longarm at my LQS.

Hand-quilter here. I love the relaxation it gives me. Nothing quite like the rocking motion of a needle and thread going through a beautiful fabric.

Short-Arm machine quilter here. :D

I had my first two done by a "professional". But as she only was meandering on her long arm, I figured I could do that too!! So, I have done all of mine, from table runners to a king-size on my machine!! If I was hand quilting, I would have either gone crazy, or still be working on my first one :!: :wink: :oops:

Hand quilter here. I have never learned to quilt any other way, and that's OK. Lot's of enjoyment in it.

I am basically only a handquilter. I do machine quilt small quilts like Linus that will go to children or relatives that don't know how to care for handwork.
I have sent one kingsize quilt to a longarmer. Orginally I was going to have her baste it for me and then do the handquilting myself. When I decided to give it to my step-daughter for her 20th anniversary I had it longarmed. It cost me $165. I still have to bind it. I know my step-daughter will wash it to death. I was not willing to put more than a month's worth of handwork into it for that reason.

I machine quilt baby quilts, throw size and twin size, also wall hangings. Hand quilt almost anything. I'm a stab stitcher quilter also by the way. Most full or larger I have a lady in our quilt guild machine quilt as she has long arm quilting machine and does fabulous work. And her prices are pretty reasonable and even supplies batting if we want at reasonable price as she buys it by the large roll.

I machine quilt on my own regular size sewing machine. Around here it is pretty expensive and quite the wait to have it quilted by someone with a long arm. I'd rather spend my money on more fabrics!!!!
I do have one that I may send out, it is a queen size flannel, not sure my shoulders can handle that one.

So many handquilters here, I have never attempted handquilting. I do SID on small things and big quilts are done by a long arm quilter.

This is exactly how I feel!
I love sitting at my quilting frame and quilting away the hours. I love using all kinds of stencils and making pretty patterns on the quilt. there are times when I wish I could machine quilt on gifts and charity work so it would go faster and will probably learn to in the future, but will never stop being a hand quilter! :D

i typically machine quilt and then i do hand stitched embellishments.

I have handed quilted all but one of my quilts - and that one was a SMALL wall hanging. I'd love to have a frame and machine and stitch regulator - maybe one day (big sigh!)

I hand quilt. I enjoy doing it so much that I can't bear to send one out and deny myself the pleasure of hand quilting it. :roll:

I do all my own quilting on a home machine. I have done SID as well as custom quilting for the projects i have done thus far. I practice alot with FM and wouldnt be afraid to try quilting any design into something and the future of quilting my own looks good for me all of the tops i have done are queen sized and smaller. Chris

I started this venture with hand quilting. I bought a top on ebay and went to work. That's how my great grandmother mader her living so I wanted to do what she did. BUT, found the need to start piecing and found a long arm close by that was pretty reasonble. Now I'm about to do my first SID on my machine. So my answer is yes, yes and yes.

I hand quilt everything but my baby quilts. I figure a baby quilt is washed so many times that they would just stand up better. I do it on my sewing machine and just SID or do grid work.

I hand quilt very special things, machine quilt everything else myself. I sent out a queen-sized quilt once to a professional long-arm quilter, and it was ok. I just felt like I could have done it myself. It's hard work doing big quilts, but it's not impossible.

I machine quilt my own. Someday I would like to have a quilt frame and a long arm, but til then I do them on my Juki. It works fine for me.

I have done all three--hand quilt, machine quilt and send out to a longarmer. The cost to send the quilts out is so high! DH just bought me a nice new Viking Sapphire 870, with the longer throat bed so that it will be easier for me to work on bigger quilts. What I need now to be able to FMQ better is an acrylic extension to go on my machine. Hmmmm, DH's birthday is coming up this Friday--maybe I should get one of those for him? :? He said he would like to try doing FMQ sometime soon... :D

Both hand and machine. My Granny taught me to hand quilt and then I decided to learn to machine quilt when I bought my Elna Quilter's Dream, now I have a Juke with a Grace Pro frame. I'm with the others on sending my quilts to a LAQ afraid it will be lost or something will happen that I won't like! No offense to anyone, just want to protect my "babies"

I handquilt the Hawaiian applique', but have a shortarm/frame for everything else.

I machine quilt my table runners, mini quilts and wall hangings. I either rent the longarm or send out the larger ones. Renting is a lot cheaper tho. Finding the time is the challenge! :D

I do almost all of my quilting by hand. There is nothing more relaxing to me than sitting on the couch with my feet up, listening to whatever TV program my husband is watching and quilting. I have made several sizes of lap frames from pvc pipe and use those. I have square ones and rectangular ones. Originally bought a Q-snap frame from my favorite fabric store and then went on line to buy different lengths of the outer snap tubes. Much cheaper and I get the size frame I want rather than the sizes they sell.

I have only been a handquilter. But really hate the part of when I need to quilt in the ditch. I have decided there is no reason I can't machine quilt in the ditch and get to the fun and more creative, relaxing part of handquilting quicker.

Hand quilting is my preference, it's my favorite part of the project.

Lately however I have so many baby quilts to make I have been machine quilting those on my domestic machine. I use the Flynn frame & really like it, just need more practice.

Jo

I quilt mine on my Janome. But I haven't tried a full size quiilt yet. Sending it out is too expensive, and in this area your quilt could be gone for months.

I use all three options. My machine quilting is limited to small projects, maybe as large as a baby quilt. I've hand quilted a few small things also. My large quilts and special gifts, I have done by my daugher's MIL. She has a long arm and gives me a good job for a fair price.

Machine - I wish I could still hand quilt, but my thumbs are too old LOL
I'm about to do some more experimenting with quilting Designs on 4D Software on my Pfaff Embroidery machine. I bought the software specifically for this purpose, and I take every class my Pfaff dealer in Tucson offers - free for people who buy the software. It's an amazing program.

It's important to me that all of the quilt be done by me. I don't forsee ever sending one out to be finished by someone else. So far, I've been machine quilting due to deadlines and such. In the two years that I've been quilting, I have learned and grown so much. Now, I'm not afraid to tackle anything. I'm looking forward to making some quilts just for me over the fall and winter and at least one will be hand quilted which will be a first for me. I guess my motto is "nothing ventured, nothing gained"!

I have hand quilted a few things, but now have rheumatoid arthritis and can't do it anymore, so I machine quilt most anything. The largest I've ever done on my Janome is an oversized queen sized quilt for my bed. I do mostly meander or SID on throws and larger items. I have a Grace Frame, but don't use it, even though it's set up in a room in my finished basement. I have trouble standing long enough to make much progress at one time.

Mainly, I hand quilt. I've done a few SID on the machine and been practicing to do a FMQ sometime. I too love the hand quilting but there are sometimes when I know it won't be appreciated that I'm very tempted to do more by machine.

This has been a great surprise. There are still a lot of us hand quilters out there. It seems the last 4 quilt shows I have been to including the International in Long Beach California, I can count the quilts hand quilted on one hand. I don't think there is much respect for the hand quilters in California. Not nearly like the Mid West and East. I am so glad there a quite a few of us not giving up the art of hand quilting.

Don't get me wrong I love the beautiful quilts that are machine quilted, but all my quilting friends in California even if they were hand quilters have totally switched to machine quilting and seem a little condesending some times to those of us that still hand quilt. I even plan on doing some machine quilting in the ditch on my quilts just so I can get to the intricate hand quilting designs. I don't even go to guild meetings in CA anymore, just don't seem to fit in.

Ok, I will get off my soap box. I still love all quilting.

Oh dear - I'm sorry to hear this. I have great respect for BOTH hand and machine quilters. I wish I could still hand quilt, but my hands no longer cooperate, so I'm learning bit by bit to machine quilt. Baby steps LOL

i have done it all an since my hubby got mylong arm machine i do that because it is so easy do do that way ani can get more done that way.i have arteritis an can't stand or sit in sewing chair for long periods of time.i 've had old arther since i was a kid an it's just getting worse as the years go bye.