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Kwiltr

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  1. Thanks Jim for your response. My husband has been over that table with a fine tooth comb. The only thing that changes when going from Lenni to Lucey are the side arms on the frame to move the front rollers for the top and the backing out to provide for the longer throat space on the Lucey. The table is the same. The carriage is the same. The deluxe frame is a bit more beefy, which I think would add to the stability for the heavier machine and the longer reach.
  2. I went from a Lenni to a Lucey about a year and a half ago. I only had to change out the end arms on the table to accommodate the larger throat of the Lucey for my table that I already had. Since getting the Lucey, I have had a vibration issue that we cannot solve and it drives me crazy. I feel like I will never get any consistency in the quality of my quilting because I’m always dealing with the vibration. I think we’ve tried just about everything and I was wondering if it would make a difference to upgrade to a deluxe table. I have a 12 ft standard frame with Bliss now. So two questions....1. Do you think upgrading the table would help this issue? And 2. Is there a market for a used standard table with bliss? The vibration is all over the map as to where the machine is at the time on the frame. It makes it really hard to control the movements of the machine. My husband has reinforced our floor joists under the table, checked the table for level many times, I’ve put pucks under the legs, rubber belting under the legs, nothing under the legs, nothing seems to help. The flooring is vinyl plank over the subfloor, on the main floor. The closer I am to the front of the frame (That sweet spot for quilting distance) the worse the vibration is. Ugh. TIA for any insights... Kathy
  3. What an impressive quilt! Great job on the piecing and quilting. He will treasure it I’m sure! Good for you to stretch yourself and just look at what you did!!!
  4. Great question! I'm on Facebook, but I've only stuck with it to keep in touch with what's going on with my family living across the country. Just recently, I joined a few quilting groups on there and a local buy and sell group. I actually prefer the forum setting as I don't really trust FB and where your information is going. It seemed to me FB was becoming a lot less active amongst family members, but man there is always someone posting inane comments somewhere on the groups I've joined. Time will tell if I stick with them. I much prefer the forums that I choose to join. At least I know someone has come here out of interest and not so random.
  5. What a fun quilt to make and to quilt! Absolutely over the top in every way! Well done!
  6. Great quilt! I love the movement it radiates!
  7. Very nice quilt!! I really like the colours, which I would normally not gravitate toward, and your quilting choices for each area. I too really like your flower meander or whatever you call it. Awesome! Great pattern too.
  8. Thank you Connie, for your detailed response! You've addressed all of my concerns and given me the confidence to have a go at it! Very much appreciate it!
  9. Sure Cagey. It was before I had my Lenni, and was working with my Sitdown machine. My process that I always had success with was to make my quilt sandwich using 505 to spray baste, then use my domestic machine with the walking foot, I have a Janome 6600, to do all the straight line ditching before taking it to my Sitdown to carry on with the rest. What happened for me was that the wool batting layer was shifting within the sandwich (to me wool is a bit like a polyester batting with loft, it has movement within the batting if you know what I mean) and I ended up plowing the quilt top, so that by the time I'd stitched the width of the quilt I was getting a pucker. I never had that issue before with just one layer of 80/20 and tried various things to avoid it without success. Probably operator error on my part. The quilt I was working on had a lot of straight lines to ditch and it was so much easier on my domestic to get it done when managing the big quilt rather than trying to use a ruler and gently manipulate the quilt before any of the layers came unstuck. It was really heavy with the two layers of batting and the quilt was huge, so it's nice the walking helps a lot. I had tried separating the wool bat to half its thickness as suggested by Cindy Needham, a method she uses all the time, but my bat wouldn't separate nicely, so it was obviously of a different variety than what she uses. I probably could have accomplished it on my Sweet 16, but the thought of wielding that heavy quilt around with the extra batting and manipulating the ruler to ditch it as such was more than I was interested in doing. That was my first and only experience with two layers and wool and pretty much wrote it off unless I got a frame to quilt on. Hope that answers your question.
  10. Hi, So I'm at a point now where I want to try using 2 layers of batting in a quilt and I seem to recall someone telling me for the inexperienced, 2 layers of cotton or 80/20 is a better way to start. I suspect the reason is there is less or no movement within the cotton layers as there is in a wool batting. The reason I want to do 2 layers is to get and keep more definition in the quilting and I find after washing, a single batted quilt feels so thin. I tried doing a double layer with 80/20 and a QD Wool once in a King quilt on my Sweet 16 Sitdown. It did not go well, I ripped out my stitching and removed the wool batting from the sandwich (no small feat, as it was 505 spray basted) and ended up quilting it with the one layer of the 80/20. So now that I have my Lenni, I want to try again and have these questions. The second question, I have 2 quilt tops nearing readiness to quilt and both have a lot of white background. I've only ever purchased "natural" coloured batting and primarily used Hobbs 80/20. Is it necessary to use "Bleached" white batting or is it really noticible when using natural colour beneath white cotton? I have warm and natural on my design wall and my white cotton looks okay, but thought I'd ask before I proceed. Tips and tricks for dealing with double batting? I suspect my machine harp will fill up more quickly once I move down the quilt on a queen or king sized quilt. Also, is it likely I'll need to adjust my hopping foot height? Does 2 layers of 80/20 make any noticible difference in density when quilting to give problems quilting? Thanks in advance for your insight!
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