DSM vs longarm
Is it reasonable to expect FMQ on a domestic machine to look as good as quilting on a longarm? Over the years that I have been quilting on my 1008 Bernina mechanical I have never been able to get the stitches to look as good as I expected. I don't mean the pattern -- I mean the quality of each individual stitch. They're "good enough" and yet, even as my skills grow, they just aren't the quality that I would like to see. Washing the quilt after it's finished does seem to help a bit, as the fabric and batting shrink a bit around the stitches. Still . . . am I being unrealistic?