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Mary Beth

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  1. Beautiful!! Love the quilting in individual blocks.
  2. I will just add, quilting is very rewarding because you become a part of the history of that quilt. You may be the only person who knows that, but to me that was very rewarding. It is hard work, and to be honest, you will need to set aside time for family. But you should do that anyway. It may take a little time to build your business, and you will need sell yourself, but there is plenty of business out there.
  3. Sorry Rita. You for sure want to make sure everything is right before going forward. Patients Grasshopper Continued prayers.
  4. Let me! Let me!!! I no longer have a Circlelord, because I sold it when I sold my first machine. When I had a Circlelord, it was my favorite tool in my quilting studio. When I first started quilting and seen the price, I posted that I just could not afford it. But finally, I bit the bullit and bought my CL. I love it!!! It was so easy to use. I was able to wiz through customer quitls quickly.....and.....it made me look good. Once I felt comfortable with the CL, I started playing around and getting creative, adding my own touch. I loved my CL.
  5. Your quilt is making the rounds. My ex-sister-in-law is my friend on FB. She just shared the picture with me!! You are famous!!!
  6. I have tried pressing freezer paper the fabric and sending it through the printer. A piece of the fabric must have raveled just as it tried to feed through, and I had a mess. Since then I have been more selective. I made a tee-shirt quilt and used some photos of the young lady to add to the quilt. She was a softball player in high school and had some really good achievements, so I offered to do that. I printed those photos to Printed Treasures but I know there are many out there that work well. I have been making my quilt labels out of the scraps from the parts I did not use, and I think I like it.
  7. I had zippers on my old machine. I absolutely hate those pins. They tear my hands up. I always had a feeling they were not perfectly centered, so I was not real happy with them. When I purchased my current machine, I ordered the Red Snappers. I went to Youtube and found out how to attach them and purchased 6 cheap tape measures to apply to the leaders to make sure I had my quilts centered. That was on youtube too. Renae Haddadin had great instructions. If I can avoid pins I will do it!!
  8. I think the smaller throat space is going to limit you by some of the tools or designs you use, however, there are a lot of people who have the Lenni and love it. That being said, how many of them would trade for a larger space if the money were not an issue, maybe that is the question to ask. I had a Millie years ago and sold it. When I was ready to buy again, I knew I wanted another Millie, or something with a larger work space because I didn't want to be rolling my quilt to work on a larger block, or whatever. I actually ordered a new Millie last year in November, but then I decided I didn't want to spend that much money to quilt for just me. If I were going to quilt for customers, there is no question in my mind, Millie it is. I found a used Freedom/Freddie, same throat space, only lacking vertical channel locks, no thread cutter. I had no problem losing those features as long as I had the throat space. You seem to be sold on the Lenni, and it seems to suite your needs, so if that is the one, then go for it. It is all a personal preference. Really, no one can tell you which one to get, we can only give your our opinions, and like they say....we all have one I will be waiting to see which machine you finally settle on. I know this is not an easy process.
  9. Have you compared the two machines to see what the differences are? That helps me. It may come down to just what you want on the machine. If you have enough money for the Millie, I would not hesitate to purchase that machine. I have known a lot of quilts who have had Millies who were tiny little girls, no problem. You can adjust the height of the table, so I don't think that would be a problem.
  10. T-shirt quilts are time consuming from start to finish. Do not short change yourself. Your time is valuable. Normally the people who brought me t-shirts, had no clue about quilts for the supplies needed. My price quote included the price of the fabric, stabilizer, then preparing the block and quilting. The joy on the customers face is normally worth the work....but it is a lot of work.
  11. Toot! is an understatement!!! Kay, your quilting is just beautiful!!!
  12. Well, no one has posted, so leave it to me. I do not have them, but am thinking of getting them. Linda Card has them and she love them. I'm sure others do to, hopefully someone will give you some feed back here.
  13. This is the kind of questions that can bring out the worst in a chat I'm sure that is not the intent. We are on the APQS Chat, so of course most dealers and owners are going to want you to purchase APQS. This is such a great company because they do not limit you to the type of machine you have to use this chat. You will get many, many different people participating with this topic, some have had other machines and changed, some have had bad experiences with one or the other company. I agree with those who have said try out all machines. You need to know in your mind that you have made the best decision possible, this is no cheap investment. I personally like my Millie, and for me it has been the best choice....so far. There are always new machines on the market, there are always new devices being introduced by these companies tweaking their machines and adding new features to intice us. I may change someday....or not! But it is up to me to make that decision. Go to the shows. Try out the machines....every single one. Find the machine that works for you.
  14. Cassandra, How about your wheels? I have had the problem of thread breaking, skipped stitches, uneven stitches, etc. I had readjusted my wheels and got them all out of whack. There was no getting it back to normal. I went on like that for about 6 months or more. Finally, Debbi T. from Des Moins was here and she worked a miracle on my machine. It works perfect now. Sounds like you have tried everything else. Not sure it would help you, but it might be worth a try.
  15. I was working on a quilt that needs to be done by Sept. 11, when I decided to check my list and see where I am on quilts. I found one that somehow I missed - still haven't figured out how that happened - anywho...I took the first quilt off the frame, changed thread put the next quilt on. It was going to be a simple, CL Baptist Fan so I knew it would go quick...about half way through the quilt I started having terrible tension problems, loops and skipped stitches, and nothing I did helped. I could not figure it out. Finally, I decided my sandwich was too tight. The top was a vintage top and in order to make it lay flat I was putting too much tension on the quilt itself. Once I released some of the tension, the stitching was perfect. Make sure your quilt is not pulled too tight - just a suggestion when all else fails.
  16. Cassandra, What machine do you have? Maybe that will help with trying to give suggestions....maybe someone else with the same model has experienced the same thing. If it is an APQS Millie the problem may be different than with say a Gammill or Nolting. Tension discs are different. Just a thought.
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