Long arm for me--Tin Lizzie!

I send mine to a LAQ. I barely have time to piece, if I had to quilt nothing would ever get finished.

I quilt all of my own quilts on my domestic machine. Regular size domestic machine.
I dream of owning a long-arm someday and have yet to send out to have a quilt quilted, though I have 2 that I am seriously considering having done.

I rent time on a computerized long arm to do my quilting. That way I feel like it is still MY work.

Derla

I have a super old Gammill Classic LongArm. It doesn't have any bell or whistle and I am self taught. My quilts please me and that's all that I'm concerned about. I quilt strictly for my own pleasure and enjoyment. When it becomes a chore, that's when I'll quit.

No long arm, I do FMQ on one or the other of my Juki TL98 QE. I do lots of queen size and have no problem doing it.

Just use my Jamone 2010

I often wish I had a longarm, but no money for one and no room for it anyway! :cry:

I have a bernina that I use on my little gracie frame..I am very new to quilting that way ...but itis really fun,,You can finish a quilt very fast this way...Sometimes I use my brother innivis 4000d...It is easy to work with no matter what I do...
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I have a long arm an I still do babby quilts on my regular machine.Just easier than setting up the big machine.

Piece on my Bernina 930 and quilt with just my hands and fingers. LOL

I would love to have a longarm, but I don't. I quilt and piece with the same machine...a Bernina 730e. I love it, but she could use a sister with long arms...LOL

I use my Janome 6500. It works fine . I sent one quilt out to a LA quilter, and am still waiting for her to start on it, after a month.

I use my Kenmore for free motion and SID quilting .I have done several queen tops this way. It works for me and mostly I can roll my quilts and scrunch them in sometimes it gets a little tricky but I manage

you can do free motion on your machine that feed dogs don't lower. Just punch a hole in a piece of plastic and tape over the feed dogs.

Don't have a longarm, maybe someday ... and just starting quilting on my old Singer with a walking foot last month! Have only hand quilted a quilt about 20 years ago, had no idea what I was doing, but still have the quilt! :-D I am planning to try a little free-motion quilting with my regular sewing machine after reading about it here. Never have done that before.

No machine at all....I'm a hand quilter!

Domestic machine and hand quilting for me!

Gal

No longarm here just domestic machine, someday if i'm a good girl lol

Domestic cheapy Brother and the scrunch method.

No longarm for me! There is no space in our home. So do regular machine quilting unless the item is big. Then, off to a quilter! It's spendy, but not nearly as much as a longarm. Besides, I really don't like handling all that fabric. Guess I'm a piecer at heart.

I use my Juki, love it!

I have a singer and use that. Works for me until I can get one that will free motion quilt. Long arms are ssooo far from my budget that I am looking into the 3060's in order to get one.

I don't own a long arm yet but would love to. I have three sewing machines, a really old Viking from the early 70's, some no-name brand a friend gave me when she moved its really basic, and a new Singer Futura 250. I have quilted on these machines but ONLY small quilts such as wall hangings. I didn't care for the quality of the quilting on larger quilts. I did find a quilt frame I could use on my sewing machine. It has rollers under the frame. The draw backs however is the quilting space is only about 4 inches, and because I don't have a stitch regulator on my sewing machine my stitches could come out really short or really long if I got distracted - which is really easy when you have young children and a dog running around the house.
SO, on my bigger quilts I send them to a quilter here in town and pay her/him to quilt them for me. Your local quilt store may have a list of people who do this for a living. I took a king sized quilt to one lady including batting, and trimming it was about $150, I took another quilt an over sized lap quilt 60x72 and it was $53. When I get them back I finish them with the binding and they are awesome. I would really like to own a long arm and do it myself - someday...

No long arm here either. Would love to have one but the price and lack of space leaves it in my "When I win the lottery" dream. Also not sure I would have enough brains to learn to run it before I die !!

That's a lot of fabric money :roll:

No I have no long arm yet. Currently I use a Janome 6500 to free motion and that has an extended bed. It is a crunch but I push everything through it including calking sized quilts. Roll thight and then reroll and do blocks at a time. The border you can go all the way around as long as you posisting the bulk away from the arm of the machine.

I am sure there is a way for you to cover the feed dogs and use your current machine. Maybe some one on the board can help you. I think you can tape template plastic over it and punch a hole for the needle but I haven't done it yet. I say yet because I am looking at something similar for my antique machines. Sometimes you can find an after market cover plate.

Just a regular machine, a Janome 11543. I doubt I will ever get a Longarm, they cost almost as much a car.

I have a longarm (w/stitch regulator, etc). I do love it. It's really fun. I never thought I would like anything more than piecing...but I was so wrong!

Before that, I quilted on my Singer. An over-sized king size convinced me I needed a LA. But I had to do a lot more quilting on the Singer before I decided to spend the money. Now, I'd rather quilt than piece :)

On the Singer, I used the scrunch method once my stabilizing was done. First I stabilized, using whatever method I desired (pins, water soluble thread, straight lines, etc.) and then scrunched around for the more detailed designs. Hope this helps!

no longarm. saved the $$$, but then decided there was no where to put it. just use my janome.

I'd love to know about that scrunch, scrunch, flatten, too.
I can do lap quilts (sort of), but the rest I'm not certain of.
Thanks.
Dodee

I use my rewgular machine and usually forget to lower my feed dogs. Still works great! Give it a try.

I have one but haven't even had time to use it yet!!

I have a regular machine, nothing fancy. Would not have room for a long arm and I am still fairly new to quilting and tie my quilts

I use my regular Janome. As I plan the quilt I plan to make it in parts so I can quilt it and then put it together for the finishing.

I have a longarm that I bought 15 years ago. I got it and the binder for $2500.00. I have to do an allover pattern with it because I have to stand behind it and not in front but for my quilting it serves the purpose.

Fun Quilter by Nolting, Hinterberg 10' frame - I piece on a Pfaff 1472. 15 yrs old and still going strong.

I have one, it's on a 14' frame and takes up half my den but I love it....I quilt in the mornings before work

I have a gracie frame and 1600P Janome but when I moved I had to dismantle it so it hasn't been set back up. I send mine out to a friend which is easier for me - I am nervous about setting up the frame again.

I use a forty year old Singer, and the feed dogs do not drop on it either. I cover my feed dogs with an index card (taped down )to FMQ, and I use the "scrunch and flatten" method also, some call it "puddling".