HELP...looking for longarm quilt machine

[Pattycake]

My husband is very mechanically inclined, and after we saw demonstrations of about every longarm on the market, he decided that the Handiquilter was the best for my home use. I agreed. We wanted to buy it locally, but the dealer was too high. After spending several days calling HQ dealers we found on the Net, we ended up buying it here: https://whitlocks.com/
Although this dealer is located in Oregon and we're in Colorado, he is always available if I have a question. He stayed on the phone several hours with us when it arrived and we were putting it together, AND he was several hundred dollars cheaper than any other dealer. He's one of the top HQ dealers, and I see why. The kicker is if something happens to the machine, the local dealer has to repair it. When I told the local dealer I could get it at such a reduced rate his words were, "Do it", not believing me. If I should have difficulty with the local dealer, all I have to do is call Handiquilter.

Handiquilter offers fantastic support also. I've called them about the smallest, most insignificant things that were important to me, and they tell me step by step what to do and stay on the line until I'm satisfied. They have a technician who will call back in a short time and can troubleshoot any problem. He even told me how to set the tension to use metallic thread. After I'd had the longarm a year DH gave me ProStitcher (a computerized program with a small computer that fits on the machine). This allows me to have the attached computer do the quilting for me. I just select the quilting design, have the computer measure the width of the quilt, input the size I want the designs to be and push the button. It does all the work for me. I can also manually quilt or use the laser light with drawn designs or templates.