I started out hand quilting but it took me a solid year to hand quilt a queen sized quilt! That was when I lived in Maine and done in-between piling wood for the winter, planting the garden, canning the veggies, baling hay...get the idea? Then I made a twin size quilt for my grandson and quilted that on the old Kenmore. It turned out pretty good!Then I discovered a lady that had a long arm and did them for $50-$60 bucks! WOO-HOO! But... now I have about 15 tops waiting to be quilted. Can no longer afford to do anything but quilt them myself!I did some FM quilting on a table topper last month! It came out OK. My excuse is that the house I rent doesn't have a floor big enough to spread a quilt out on it! I made 2 QAUG queen size quilts in Nov. and Dec. but I find them limiting. I am really at a stand still as far as quilting right now!But I'll figure something out soon 'cuz I ain't stopping the sewing!

i hand quilt my quilts. I've only done 2, finishing my 3rd and this week i'll finish the top to my 4th quilt.

I'm learning to FMQ and use regular sewing machines. I use vintage machines and there is a lot of space for the quilt.

I use my Janome 6600 but our local fabric store is offering rental time on a long arm this year so I am going to give it a try

I quilted several smaller quilts on my regular sewing machine. Sent larger ones out to a longarm quilter. BUT, last May I bought my own gently-used Handi-Quilter 16, and I absolutely love getting to do any size....any time I'm ready!!

I have a Statler Stitcher. I have been longarm quilting for about ten years now. But when I first starting machine quilting it was on a Viking, then I moved up to Janome because of the 9" base. After about four years of that I decided it was time to step up to the longarm machine. My first purchase was the Handi Quilter, then I jumped up to the Gammill Classic, now I own a Statler Stitcher.

practice! practice! PRACTICE!

I would love a longarm but can't justify the expense, nor do I have enuf room to set it up and be comfortable with the space I have left for sewing. I do free motion quilting on all so far except for a queen size for my bed which I took to the longarm quilter.

I quilt a lot of my quilts on my home machine....but they have to be on the small side. Anything big it goes to my aunt to quilt on her long arm.

Up until this last April I quilted all of my quilts, toppers, and wallhangings on my Kenmore. Some of the bigger ones I took to my mother she has a Gammill. In April we purchased a APQS Longarm and since have done my own. Quite often I still do smaller ones on Kenmore especially where I want lots of Stitch in the Ditch. (I guess out of habit)