![]() ![]() ![]() If you can fit one, a Queen Supreme is most beneficial because it takes up more room, helping the quilt move easier over a larger area.Įven if your arm isn’t quite big enough, you can cut both sliders down with scissors to make them fit to your machine. These sliders are slick Teflon sheets designed to make your quilt move easier over the surface of your machine. For this, I was using a Free Motion Glider. Now let’s move on to actually moving the quilt on the machine and table. Personally, I’m ready for my back to hurt! So really it’s a toss up between lowering your chair considerably, which will bring your arms and shoulders up, and may hurt your back, or you can leave your chair up higher and just deal with constant headaches and neck aches. The front comes out quite far, so most of the time I’m bending my neck down just to see around the machine body to see where I’ve stitched the previous row. ![]() One of the few annoying things about the Janome Horizon is how big and clunky the top area above the needle is. Of course, not all machines are going to be so difficult to see around. However, if the chair is too low then your shoulders will come up to get over the quilt and you’ll end up with a back ache, not a neck ache. All I have to say is it explains a lot about why I’ve struggled with both intense headaches and neck issues for the last year.Īs for a solution – if my chair had been lower, I might not have had to angle my neck in that way. The second major note is my neck angle through most of this video. There are several things to note with this video and the first is it was sped up 8 times the normal speed so I could show you the entire process of the quilt being broken down into quadrants, then a single quadrant being quilted (the other 3 were quilted the same way with rows of quilting). This quilt is around the same size as Crazy Pepper, so it’s a good example of how to move, reposition, and rotate your quilt on your home machine. So that’s what I’ve done! I quilted another UFO quilt this week, this time a quilt that’s been fully basted and ready to go for more than a year. Many quilters requested a second video, this time showing the whole quilt from a different angle to better understand how the quilt moves on the machine and how I deal with the bulk of it at any given time. Last week I shared a tutorial about quilting a real quilt on your machine and showed a video mostly showing the movement of my hands as I quilted this Crazy Pepper Quilt: ![]()
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