Domestic Viking.

No longarm here, a 30 year old singer most of the time, and a embroidery machine for detail sometimes. I too use the scrunch and flatten method.

Iam using my 40 year old Viking on a grace frame. My dream is a longarm.

No long arm for me--maybe in the future. I machine quilt, including stipling, on my Husqvarna. I always have one quilt on my Grace frame for hand quilting--usually a queen or king.

I don't have room for long arm if I could buy one. I have an older 1500 model commercial straight stitch Brother that has a longer throat. Queen size, i sent out. The Quilt Haus in New Braunfels, Texas rents out time on their long arm for those that want. Maybe more quilt shops will start doing this.

No long arm here either. I machine quilt on 2 machines...Viking Des. SE and my new HORIZON 7700!

This year my sister brought a long arm on Craig's List and got a fantastic buy. Me, I do my FMQ'ing on my sewing machine.
I heard a tip that if you could not drop your feed dogs then tape a piece of plastic, like an old credit card over the feed dogs. Never tried it because I can drop mine.

I use the "pull and tug" technique. Works great for me!

Wow! I totally forgot about the Big E. I remember going when I was a kid growing up in New England. We used to have so much fun.

regular sewing machine for me, but my quilting is not anything close to being beautiful. God bless. Penny

I don't

Hand quilting here. I use my sewing maching for the smaller projects such as lap quilts, table runners and so forth.

Have always done my on a domestic machine - Pfaff & Janome
I have owned a long arm in the past - Juki with New Horizons table and found it too restrictive for me. Found a new home for it, took the money I sold it for, went to my local LQS and got a Pfaff 2.0 with dual lights and long throat. Happy as a clam back in what I most comfortable with. Have test driven a number of machines but still prefer my domestics.

I have done several quilts on my domestic machine, after quilting a King size on it, my husband saw how stressed out I was, he bought me a longarm Homesteader 22" and I love it. It is soooo much easier to quilt with the quilt all spread out evenly with no wrinkles in the backing. Now, I have to start back piecing again because I have already quilted all my quilts tops. I like to do the whole quilt by myself, piecing, quilting and binding.

I hope all you ladies/gents that want a longarm can someway get one soon. I am pulling for you. :)

I bought an HQ16 a couple of years ago. I just had a desire to complete the quilt start to finish without sending it out to a longarm quilter--just as I would never get around to handquilting anything I would also not struggle with quilting on a domestic machine--just lazy I guess. I really like it and I am content to just do pantographs at this point.

I have an HQ16 too, only had it about 8 months...but I love it!!!!

Thank you for asking. I thougth I was the only one with out a long arm. I do think that I am in the dark ages tying my quilts. I can not do any fine work with my hands . I do a few on my machine,until I get overwhelmed and go back to tying..
And yes I am too frugal to send them out . You know,one pay check family?
Happy Quilting ,
christina (chrissy)

Wouldn't use even if I had one ------hand quilt only

Used to only hand quilt til I got waaaay too many tops done and fingers not enjoying the hand quilting process anymore. I had been quilting on my Janome with only a 5" neck space and got carpel tunnel issues...then DH bought me a Phaff Grand Quilter with a full sized frame...quilted a lot of tops on that. We recently moved and I don't have room for my frame so am back to quilting on the machine, but am using the Pfaff Grand Quilter, which makes the job sooo much easier! With anything larger than minis, I only stipple.

I have my Juki on a Grace Mini Pinni frame.
Works great for me.
Before I had it, I just used my Pfaff to mostly stitch in the ditch.