What size can you quilt on a small arm machine and frame?
 

I have a Mega quilter (9inch harp) on a Grace frame and wondering what's the largest that anyone has quilted with out turning the quilt?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kirsten

My friend's machine is a Juki with a 9" space, and she says she can quilt about 4". I think in general you can count on having about half the harp space to move the machine.

I've done a number of king size quilts by puddling (I'm not using a frame).

I have grace frame with phaff 9"throat space, I always do a queen and not have to turn in frame. I don't have but about3 or 4 inches to quilt on the last. So I just use a pattern that is about that size so it looks the same all over.

Without a frame, I have quilted many queen size quilts including the one in my avatar on my Bernina. If you properly pin baste a quilt, I don't know why anyone would need a frame. PLEASE forgive me, I was taught the old fashion way. Difficult to keep up with all the new products being developed.

I have a Bernina frame and use my Bernina 440 QE on it. I have approx. 5" or less quilting space and have done king size quilts on it. As you go along the space gets smaller as the take up roller gets fuller - but it is doable. I use a thin cotton batting - wouldn't work with a thick batting.

I did a king size on a dinky mechanical Brother. It was my second quilt. It was stitch in the ditch. I did wrestle parts of it but it was doable.

I have quilted 100" square on a similar setup. As previously stated, the space gets very small at the end, so I used something that only required that amount of space. I have never tried to turn a quilt. It seems like a small error in getting it lined up would cause some ugly issues with the nesting of the quilt lines.

I can do about 73 inches in length on my set-up (Pfaff Grandquilter with 9" throat on 9' frame). I use a panto that is, at the most, 5 inches.

Thankyou for the replies...
I was thinking that perhaps I would try a test run of loading the quilt and then rolling it up on the take up rollers all the way to see what I come up with in quilting space.
Hopefully it can be done.
Thanks again.
Kirsten