Sewing machine for quilting on unlimited budget
08-12-2012, 06:17 AM
#21
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Now, if money were no object, I would build a 5000 sf warehouse to house all of my current machines and buy a sweet new Bernina. I'd also have shelves for all my books and fabrics, large tables for everything, and I'd pick up a few vintage machines that I do not have in my collection.
08-12-2012, 06:20 AM
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I'm with Candace--if it is quilting you want to do, go longarm! Regardless of throat space, you are still twisting, turning and fighting that quilt! For the $13,000 the Bernina costs, you can have a very nice Innova. The largest one is great but you do have to have the Auto Pilot (computer design) on it because you cannot reach 36". If the 'quilting' you are wanting to do is piecing, then only you can try them out and decide. Good luck!
Originally Posted by Candace
I'd get a longarm and skip a new sewing machine. I'd get the largest Innova.
08-12-2012, 07:40 AM
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Last week end I went to a small quilt show in Raymond, WA. They had a vendor there with the Handi quilter sweet sixteen. I sat down and enjoyed free motion quilting on it the table was the perfect height and you could set the speed, they have a stitch regulator but I just enjoyed stitching. I would love to add one to my collection of machines. Right now my 1222 Pfaff and Baby lock Imagine are in the shop for cleaning and repairs. I so miss them. I am left to struggle on with a 7570 Pfaff and a 301 Singer. Not to mention the treadles (2) and Converted hand cranks (3) and One original hand crank a Jones.
08-12-2012, 08:24 AM
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Babylock Ellisimo sewing and embroidery with stadium lighting, automatic threading, camera built in for embroidery placement, etc., etc., etc.....wonderful machine. Plus.....it just looks gorgeous. This is the same machine Nancy Ziemen uses on her Sewing with Nancy show (with the gold top).
08-12-2012, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by k9dancer
Now, if money were no object, I would build a 5000 sf warehouse to house all of my current machines and buy a sweet new Bernina. I'd also have shelves for all my books and fabrics, large tables for everything, and I'd pick up a few vintage machines that I do not have in my collection.
08-12-2012, 09:48 AM
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The Bernina 820!! For sure!! I have it and I wouldn't trade it for any other. It is a wonderful machine. I have owned 5 berninas and several other brands and Bernina beats them all hands down! The space it has for quilting is unbelievable! I think it is the largest of all the machines. I read an artical I think McCalls quilting magazine that compared alot of the new machines and it has the largest space. Good luck getting your dream machine. Fortunatly I have a husband that is one in a million, who recognizes my quilting obsession as a good thing and he spoiles me with al my dreams!!
08-12-2012, 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by k9dancer
Now, if money were no object, I would build a 5000 sf warehouse to house all of my current machines and buy a sweet new Bernina. I'd also have shelves for all my books and fabrics, large tables for everything, and I'd pick up a few vintage machines that I do not have in my collection.
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