Thanks for the ideas. I think it was a Viking machine. The question was prompted when I was stitching around applique stars on a quilt on my sewing machine. I did part of the quilting on my LA and did the in the ditch work on the sewing machine. I got really tired of turning the quilt around and remembered that machine. I wondered if you could keep the quilt stable and just change the sewing direction. Hope that makes sense. I wasn't free motion quilting because I make a mess of in the ditch in free motion.