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  1. Battynurse, You have a lot of unknowns there.....trying to sell your current home...trying to find a new place....traveling for your job....ummmm….they tell me not to rush into decisions when facing challenges....you could just keep it set up for now until your house sells? In between jobs...you could still use it....wait and see where you are going to be living....you may have room....or you could maybe get a shorter table set up...as you say you like your machine....I would hate to see you have to give it up.....and if you are moving ….if you have other stuff too....you could move it then....I dunno….I think I would wait on selling it until I know a bit more about your future....do you have job in California? Do you have family and friends in California? maybe one of them has a huge room you could rent for Lenni?
  2. well.....I was really good at math....got in the 99.6 percentile on one of those test they used to give us....now...mind you...spelling is an entirely different story...all I can remember about that is the "i" is after "e" except after "c" except for sometimes....yah....all spelling is like that for me...flunked out of freshman English twice because we had to write an essay on the spot for the finial and in those days, we could not use a dictionary and spell check was not invented yet.....almost dropped out of college because of this...but hey I got 4 A's, 1 B, and an F the first quarter....and about the same the second quarter and finally passed English 101 during a summer session taking it pass/fail...thank goodness there is not much spelling in quilting!!!!!!
  3. Deb, Other than the messages, does everything look OK? Don't have this machine but those silly top thread, bobbin thread messages can drive you nuts! Sometimes when embroidery the thread is moving so fast it flops a bit and the silly sensor thinks there is a problem...sometimes...you can turn the sensor off.... and sometimes the dealer can adjust it enough to stop the false messages....or sometimes...I just keep pushing the go button again and telling the machine to knock it off...Lin
  4. If I remember right from my research when I was looking at getting a machine....Innova makes those huge commercial machines and later started making home use longarms...I think I linked to this on the Innova website....it was interesting looking at all the kinds and uses of those commercial machine. Lin
  5. I still consider myself a newbie....The two things that I know work when doing things like micro stippling on Lucey are to shorten the stitch length if doing it with the regulator....the other thing that smooths out how Lucey moves is to use manual and take the stitch regulator off. Yep ....a definite learning curve. I took a class from Karen McTavish and she had me do some McTavishing without the regulator and also I had tried some feathers. She often works in unregulated mode. I know on my domestic machine that I got with a stitch regulator....a lot of folks look at the stitch regulator as training wheels and those who were already good free motion folks...actually thought the regulator interfered with the smooth movement. I think it is a matter of how much you want to practice .....Try somethings without the regulator and on and with it on. For me....I mainly make quilts that folks use and quilt for myself. I never have done show quilts and do art quilts only rarely....so Lucey works just fine for what I do.....at my current level of talent . Oh, I think for stitch in the ditch and ruler work....the regulator is a good tool for that kind of stitching. Lin
  6. I have a Lucey which I love....it was a used one off this website....I got her because she was what I could more easily afford...that being said....I would love a Millie...then could sell my Lucey and get Quilt Path....that is why I make sure I get my entry in every day for the drawing! I am 5 4 and have some carpal tunnel and other muscle issues and find I am more comfortable working more toward me...and I just don't have to fully advance every time when I want to do that...easy peasy...on the other hand....if I am doing stitch in the ditch on a large diagonal square...it sure is nice to have the extra room that the 26 inch throat would allow...if I were rich...I would get the Millie and the computer system...just saying....I do mostly free motion now...no pantos so far....Lin
  7. I will be interested in hearing the answers.....Teresa...I was having problems with the like button and I don't know what I did....but I like your post...I have been using mainly OMNI because that what was suggested to me as a beginner....I have been winding my own bobbins and had bad tension with one color on the last quilt that I did...I also ordered some pre-wounds and now have bottomline, so fine, and megnaglide classics that I am going to be trying....I just tried the So fine pre-wounds and they worked well for me with the matching thread (50 weight)....I have been afraid to try the king tut..but I have a good supply of that and YLI cotton also from my old mega-quilter set-up and they worked fine on that when I used the same thread in the bobbin .but from what I learned here, king tut is difficult .......I am thinking I am going to order more pre-wounds...just have to figure out what ones....Lin
  8. On my little 10 foot frame....if I ran out of leader.....but still would have room so I could access the machine for bobbin changes etc....I would off center everything...even made an "Offcenter Center" mark in red pigma pen so I knew where it was on all three leaders....I can't remember how many inches over it was.....then I would pin everything on....but where the backing did not extend far enough...I would take some blue painters tape and just tape the backing to the roller...I suppose you could also tape a "mini" leader to one end and pin the backing to that....just so you have enough room to park your machine on one side of the frame. I usually semi float my tops......so that top has not been an issue....at the other end, I just pinned the bottom edge of top and taped the backing again to the roller when it got that far....Lin
  9. Just means that a new reply has been added so that this post topic appears near the top of the "new content" so folks see that it still for sale or has been sold. Lin
  10. ummmm....i just had a thought this morning....as I posted before my Mega Quilter and frame is sitting taken apart and I am thinking about keeping the machine for piecing....just had thought...that maybe that light weight little frame would make a great roll batting holder...the rollers all are easy to remove and I think you could use three of them to hold rolls....I haven't order any rolls of batting yet but have been thinking about...now to see if I have the room for it....it really is not very wide.and I just may have room to set it up.....without the machine...I will have 10 feet of roller length...the poles are stronger than a shower curtain...just thought I would would share this in case some of you still have this little frame lurking around somewhere or I think you could pick one up fairly cheap! Lin
  11. Hi, That is what I had for several years...I still have it..taken apart...I paid 2800 for my set up new...it has a 9 inch neck...can be used off the frame as well as on it...mine came with a large surround and knee lift also...the machine just does staight stitch...has a needle up down and cutter....I got the add on stitch regulator for it....I did 30 or so quilts on it mainly meander because doing anything else was a challenge because of the shrinking size...no leveler bar...the quilt needs to be adjusted as it is rolled by turning knobs and sliding the bars up or down...there is a learning curve..need to have a finger's tip space between the quilt and bed of the machine....the feed dogs on the machine don't drop..there is a cover plate...some folks just removed the feed dogs when using the machine on the frame....my frame was the original inspira frame which had the panto table on top...the table and bars came in two pices so it could be set up at an 5 foot or ten foot length....my bars started to sag so I was dragging the quilt when in the middle of the frame....over-all...I am glad I got it because of the low price....but....yikes...I need more space and no sagging rollers....if the original inspira frame is the one it has...that company is no longer in business so replacement parts are hard to find unless you can find a used one, no longer in use.....I haven't yet decided for sure that I want to let mine go...because the machine itself is supposed to be an awesome piecing machine off the frame......and I have thought of just setting my frame up at the five feet where the sag won't be a problem to do small quilts...but...I gotta get to know my Lucey better before making that decision....at this point....if I sold my set-up....It would be the machine that would have the price on it.....I would throw the frame in free.....I think just the machine was 1000-1200 new if I remember correctly.......how is that for a review.....I did learn that I would love to longarm while I was using it ....and I did do those quilts on it....Lin Oh, I would think I would try to get the pricing lower....I have seen them offered for less.....and also...if she decides to get it...keep in mind, that for the larger quilts....it really is a challenge...down to just a few inches of width for quilting....I did do one queen on it...but...meandering is the name....the two fancier queens I pieced..I had another longarmer do them because of the limited space on my megaquilter and frame....
  12. Hi, RE:Millie has those little wicks that I over-oiled in the beginning, but Amy at APQS set me straight when I sent her back for a Spa treatment. My point is there are a lot of different machines with very different requirements! I am a newbie and just have had my Lucey now for a little bit...I am wondering if I am oiling her too much or too little....the lower wick is always fairly wet so far and I have not added any oil to that one...but the top four...I have added as they are not as wet as the lower one....I get a smaller amount of oil on my finger when I test them....so...how do I tell if they are fine or need oil...should they be completely dry before I add? I did find a spot of oil on my practice piece after I let her sit in one place for a while.....does that mean I oiled too much? Thanks for any tips.....Lin
  13. Hi, I use the oil that came with my machines....or I replace it in kind....but...I had a bottle of oil one time and it started to get little cloudy looking strands in it...I figured that wasn't good...so I got a new bottle...and the oil had also changed color...so I do try getting a smaller size even it costs a bit more per ounce so I get fresh stuff more often. I just follow what the machine manufacturer says to use cuz...hopefully they know what kind of oil is good for the particular machine......The kind of oil I got with my Lucey was actually the same brand as the one I had been using on my Bernina and Megaquilter....the vikings don't need oiling..but the techs do some kind of lubrications to the parts that I am not supposed to access when they are in for servicing. Does anyone know why our grandmothers ran their quilting threads through beeswax and does that contain parrafin and did that harm those old fabrics? (not that I am going to take up handquilting with bees waxed thread) Lin
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