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That is a really neat idea. I never thought of that, doing the quilt in 4 baby-quilt sizes and then put them together. Thanks for sharing that.

I have done queen sized quilting all in one piece on my 7" machines. I'm getting an old Pfaff with 8 1/4" throat today in a cabinet to clean up for quilting though as it is bigger from top to bottom and will have more room and it is only $45.00. Hurrah

I go for the squish method too! Check out Leah Day's video on her website

Oh, and the BIG table to the left really helps too. I have added a rolling office chair when needed to support the quilt

I quilt all my quilts on my Janome 6600. No problem!! Can't afford to pay for long arm quilting and I have done queen size quilts.

I was having the same trouble as you, but here is what I did: I make the quilt sandwich and then cut away the right hand third of the batting only. Use a wavy cut lineand label the top of both pieces of batting. That way you can easily replace the cutout batting when its time. Meanwhile, quilt the center third. You will not have the batting in the throat of your machine as you have cut it out. Turn around and quilt the right side of the quilt. Now, replace the cutaway batting. Whip stitch it exactly in the same place it was before you cut it away. Now you can quilt this third. Easy peasy!

I haven't read the whole thread, but it can be done. I have done all of mine (only six) on my regular sewing machine. Some were baby and lap quilts and a couple of twins; I did do my queen size too. Yes it can be a struggle - even more so if you use a lofty batting. I've used warm & natural is all of mine so I mostly had to deal with bulk from fabric. I rolled my sandwich very tight, worked from the center out and tried to work with the least amount of bulk in the throat.

Wezie: Your purple quilt is beautiful!!!!

Thank you! All of my quilts are "experiments" because I have a need to do something very different each time. That purple one just grew from a few paper pieced blocks.

I wanted Cathy to see the quilting can be done on a small machine, with certain limitations. I can't even begin to describe how much I'd like to have a proper long-arm machine set up. I know just the one I want, too.