I've been custom quilting since about 2013. My first "longarm" was a sit-down machine. It was fun, for for me, frustrating because it wasn't a whole lot different than what I was doing with my sewing machine.
We decided to move to FL, so I sold my machine before we moved, then bought an HQ Simply 16. I always had problems with leveling the table on it, thread always breaking, tension always off no matter what I did to fix it.
We moved back to WA state almost 4 years ago because my husband needed better medical care than we were able to access in FL, so I sold that machine. Once resettled, for some strange reason, I bought another machine just like it, different brand, but made by the same company. You guessed right...I had the same problems with the new machine! I sold it recently and decided to buy an APQS Lenni.
I had issues right out of the box, and after six weeks of trying one thing after another, finally got some great help from Beth Durand out of Portland, Oregon. She's an amazingly knowledgeable company rep and I'm so thankful she was able to figure out what was going on.
So, here I am, finally finishing my first quilt, but I must say, it's been a huge learning curve. LOL I've attached a couple of photos of two of the blocks, and they don't look so bad in the photos, but I must say, I think I'll take a break from pebbles, crank up the speed and do some much looser fills for a while.
I'm also wondering why there is so much space between the leveler bar and machine bed. An entire inch seems excessive, but I'll probably appreciate it once I get my red snappers installed.
I think I'll put another plain practice piece on and see what happens.
Sunny Quilter reacted to HelenS in First Quilt on new Lenni
Sunny Quilter got a reaction from T Row Studio in Ellie and Squeak
