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I have a Tin Lizzie and it works well in any direction. Maybe if your right handed its easier to work from left to right and vice versa, just a thought.
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If you quilt left to right (or right to left) all the time, you may find that your quilt slants to the right (or left) at the bottom. I have a voyager and I always quilt one row one direction and the next pass the other direction. I use groovy boards and love them.
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It won't shift if you baste down the side as you go and move your clamps.
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I have a Gammil longarm and you can stitch in any direction. You can notice a difference in stitch's if you go left to right vice right to left. BUT, the only time I have really noticed this was quilting on a white top with a black top thread and a red bobbin thread. If you use the same thread on the top and bobbin you will never notice the difference ( I think it has to do with the tension and how the thread is wound)
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My mother has a Gammill that I use all the time and they told us to only go left to right, it doesn't glide as well the other way. if you are doing stippling you don't notice it but straight lines you do. I do pantographs left to right everytime.
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I am left-handed, and I have a HandiQuilter. I go both ways. No problems with weird stitches. It is fine either way. Free-motion is easier to go both ways. Following a panto, I go right to left because of the laser pointer. That's just me!
It could also be how the machine is set up, as to which end a person starts at first. Happy quilting! :) |
I can't speak for other machines, but with the Gammill longarm a person can quilt in any direction; however the machines do run better with less thread breakage when running right to left standing on the pantograph side and left to right standing on the freehand side.
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On my first ShortArm machine I was told to start at right, work to left.
Second machine installer said no... must go left to right. But after 9 years with first machine, this was so uncomfortable.... so am still going RIGHT to LEFT on each row. There was never a stitching problem or shifting of the project. After all, your design will travel in numerous changing directions! |
Originally Posted by Barb in Louisiana
I was in my LQS recently & the lady who owned the shop told me that Long Arms are intended to work from left to right. She said that the stitch would be different on the back of the quilt, if you went back...from right to left as with a pantograph. Is this something any of you with long arms have experienced? I would have thought you could go any direction with no difference in the stitching. We were discussing a Tin Lizzie. Maybe the Tin Lizzie likes to got from Left to right???
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Originally Posted by amandasgramma
I have a Pfaff LongArm...I work left to right AND right to left. Sometimes I even go up and down. Seriously, this machine can go ANY way you want!
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