Please Advise-want to buy Longarm
#31
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Colorado
Posts: 1,184
I also purchased the Simply 16 and after just 1.5 years I upgraded to the Amara. I am much happier with the size and features. My frame is 10’ in a room that is 10’6”. I am thrilled to have a longarm even if I don’t have the recommended space on all sides. It works for me! Good luck!
#32
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Dallas area, Texas, USA
Posts: 3,050
...a quilt loaded onto a longarm rack attracts cats to lounge on the "hammock" created, they love it more than catnip! Mine is in a back bedroom I keep closed off. One time I came out of the room to use the bathroom and didn't shut the door behind me. In less than a secnd one of my Maine Coon cats was in there and sprawled out on the quilt like he was king of the castle. LOL. ... Something about cats and a room they are not allowed into makes it that much more enticing to them. ...
#33
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lubbock, TX
Posts: 376
Buy the largest throat space you can afford. Not only will a 16” throat size have to be rolled many more times than a larger throat space would, the designs you’re able to use will have to be very small. And as you reach the end of the quilt, you’ll find very little room left to quilt as the rolled finished quilt will take up a massaive amount of the throat space.
#34
When you try them out try different lengths it depends on how comfortable your reach is because I know people who have bought longarms too large for them and end up having to trade in. 20 is where I am most comfortable but I would get the biggest size you are most comfortable with
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