longarm saga part two

[6swolcott]

ok , I love quilting, and have finally figured out my dear Drea's (longarm) little fits of temper, got the bobbin thing figured out, stopped eye-lashing the back of my quilts, I told her she didn't need that much mascara doesn't look good on anyone never mind the back of a quilt , I've quilted four quilts for the charity that donates to chemo patients and picked up about 10 more to do. As I do each quilt I am thinking of the family and patient and praying for them. I am finally enjoying it, and even loading the quilts without the video ...... YEAH you can teach a old blonde new tricks. LOL

[K. McEuen]

It sucks that the learning curve on things seems to take longer as we get older, but at least you got it all figured out. Great job!

[Over40momma]

Glad to hear you have tamed the dragon!

[Jean Sewing Machine]

When I first saw the instructions for loading a quilt on a longarm frame ( way before I had one of my own), I about gave up on the idea of getting into longarm quilting. But I persisted, and watched a few videos, and plunged in to do it. Now, it isn't even much of a worry for me, I have my method down pretty well, and it doesn't take as long as it once did. Everything goes pretty well as long as the ends of the backing are SQUARE. That is the most frustrating thing, when you load the backing and find out after all that work that it isn't square. It means taking the whole thing off to square it up! After that, I can deal with pretty much everything else, except a severely lumpy top. This is why I hesitate to quilt other people's quilts, I'm not 100% sure what to do with waves and lumps!

[rebeccas-sewing]

Every time I hear a quilter complaining about his/her long arm set-up, I begin to have such mixed feelings about whether to invest in one in the future. It seems like it shouldn't be so much work to get started when you consider how expensive they are. If you had it to do over, would you still make the plunge and spend the bucks???

[Jean Sewing Machine]

Every time I hear a quilter complaining about his/her long arm set-up, I begin to have such mixed feelings about whether to invest in one in the future. It seems like it shouldn't be so much work to get started when you consider how expensive they are. If you had it to do over, would you still make the plunge and spend the bucks???

I definitely would! How many forum members have been totally stopped by the difficulty of FMQing on a domestic sewing machine? LoNgarm quilting has Its learning curve, but really is easier than FMQing, IMHO.

[6swolcott]

Every time I hear a quilter complaining about his/her long arm set-up, I begin to have such mixed feelings about whether to invest in one in the future. It seems like it shouldn't be so much work to get started when you consider how expensive they are. If you had it to do over, would you still make the plunge and spend the bucks???

NO hesitation I would do it again in a heartbeat, I did fmq on my domestic machine and fell in love with the quilting process, thats one of the many reasons I invested in a longarm. The freedom it brings to your quilting designs is over the top, yes it has a learning curve but so did learning to thread my domestic machine , I didnt even know how to sew two years ago and now people are asking me to make them quilts. I would invest again, yes it was difficult for me to learn, but you have to understand I purchased my longarm with never even having seen one used.

[WVGranny]

I really had a great experience when I got my long arm, the shop I bought it from gave me classes until I was comfortable doing it on my own.

[ilive2craft2]

So glad you have tamed the dragon. I am getting there. There were still a few too many eyelashes on the back of my tumbler flag wall hanging, but it is hanging on a wall and it was for me, so I am not worrying about it. I have a few more tops ready to quilt up and that is what I am going to tackle next. No more piecing until I get a few more quilted. I know the more I do, the easier it is. The loading of the quilt is much easier now that I have done a couple. I don't have to play the youtube videos over and over again as I am loading one now. I think I loaded the tumbler flag without pulling up youtube.