What to do When You’re Gangly: Long Arm Quilting
If you’re the kind of person who loves to make quilts but loves to make money more, you should try using a long arm quilting machine. A long arm quilting machine is an efficient, energy-saving sewing machine that increases productivity and reduces stress. It allows the quilter to do larger pieces of the quilt without giving up creativity and efficiency. If you’re in the quilting business, it would be very handy to have this machine around, and here is why.
The Way it Performs
When I say performs I don’t mean that it is going to do everything for you. Most long arm quilting machines are manufactured using high grade aluminum, making it lightweight and durable. When you are actually using the machine you will see how wonderfully it responds to the slightest touch of your hand. Smooth operator!
The Way it Handles
No, I’m not talking about a Ferrari, I’m talking about your new long arm quilting machine. You have to think of your machine as an extension to your own limbs. It moves like its gliding on glass. This makes it so much easier to change direction, quilt easier, and increase your productivity in ways you hadn’t imagined.
Long arm quilting machines are built with synchronous system which helps eliminate slipping and loss of speed so you can work at higher speeds. There is no friction, no odd traction, and no slipping so you can count on your quilt coming out great.
How Easy it is to Setup
Most long arm quilting systems come with the machine, the table, quilting patterns, thread, bobbins, bobbin winder, needles, and easy to follow and understand instructions. It is recommended that before assembling your machine that you read these instructions.
Assembling your long arm quilting machine will only take a few hours. You can be up and ready for business within a night. Take some time and get to know your machine, see how it handles in your hands. Remember the feel and the flow of how it moves.
Getting Some Steady Business
If you’ve purchased a long arm quilting machine for personal use, then you don’t have to read this part of the article. But if you’ve purchased your long arm quilting machine to make some money, read on!
There is a country full of quilters out there. Some of them are confident doing large quilts on their own, but there are some who have started a project that is too big for them to finish. My father in law is one of those people.
He designed and created a quilt for my mother in law, but when it came time to quilt over the quilted squares, he knew that he needed something larger, something industrial. He went to a quilt shop that used a long arm quilting machine and within 3 weeks he had a beautiful (and completed) quilt for his wife. Long arm quilting machines are handy, they are fun, and they are just plain wonderful!