Do you quilt your own?
#83
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Bluebell
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I quilt my own by machine, nothing larger than a full size so far. I can't get past the fact,that if I send them out to a longarmer, then I didn't complete the quilt,they did. Just a hang up of mine! They are just beautiful from the longarmer's, but mine people aren't afraid to use. I am thinking my next baby quilt I will hand quilt, I could see that. Maybe someday a longarm in my future, ha! I would have to produce lots and lots of quilts to justify that and I don't have the time to do it. Quite an expense too and I wouldn't turn it into a business,so I will stick to what I am doing when the time I have to do it!
#85
I have only sent 1 quilt to be machine quilted (my king sized bed quilt for my husband). My machine is not big enough to handle such a big quilt. And I made it with batik fabrics so it was very heavy. I usually stitch in the ditch or do a simple grid pattern. Been praticing with the BSR. I think I am getting pretty good, just not brave enough to use on a quilt I am giving away.
#87
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Missouri
Posts: 3,430
I take in customer quilts to longarm quilt, and my friends tease me asking who I'm going to hire to quilt my quilt tops. I keep really busy with customer quilts - probably because I make less then minimum wage on them. But I simple LOVE quilting on my longarm Gammill.
#88
Originally Posted by schwanton
For now, I hand quilt all my quilts and will attempt fmq on my present project, a baby quilt. I have decided to wait until my hands are not able to quilt anymore (arthritis) before I will consider sending them out.
#90
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Mableton, GA
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I do all my own from start to finish. On a cheapy Brother machine mechanical with no bells or whistles. Well, it does have a needle threader. I can FMQ on it and I have even done a king size. It was a challenge to shove it through that small space, but, it was only SITD so nothing fancy. I get tempted by the fancy machines, but have just about finished a lap sized top on my new to me treadle. And that has been a real pleasure. I think I'm going to quilt on it too. I read where I can lower the feed dogs, but might just cover them up with the slippery slidey thing if I decide to FMQ or might just SITD. I have also handquilted and like that. I find I don't enjoy hand piecing all that much.
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