Bits As Well As Pieces

As you're unpacking your novel Machine Quilter frame, you'll notice to a greater extent than or less mysterious metallic bits. They're bubble wrapped to the underneath of the bottom railroad vehicle amongst the G-clamps. You'll role the G-Clamps to clamp your side arms to your table. In this postal service we'll explicate what to create amongst the other metallic bits.
Every 1 of our frames comes amongst these three metallic bits pictured in the photograph above. The elbow shaped fleck is a stylus for pantographs. The other 2 bits check into a rounded triangular slice of forest to brand a thread stand upward which you lot tin dismiss role on or off the frame.

The Stylus

This elbow shaped metallic slice is a stylus for next pantographs. It fits into a hole inwards the top carriage. The elementary metallic stylus allows frame users to follow a pantograph pattern just similar longarm quilters. There is a  high tech Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation stylus available. It does precisely the same chore every bit the elementary depression tech metallic stylus that comes costless amongst your Machine Quilter frame. We intend that elementary is better.

 A pantograph stylus allows you lot to re-create the pattern on the pantograph pattern that's pose onto the frame table. As you lot draw the pantograph pattern amongst the stylus, which is attached to the carriage,  the sewing machine needle volition depict the same pattern on your quilt fabric. It sounds similar magic. But using a pantograph has it's ain pose of challenges. The railroad vehicle drive needs to move smooth. If you lot displace the stylus inwards a jerky way, the work of quilting volition move jerky too.  Treat the pantograph pattern just similar a Free Motion Quilting work design. Turn off your sewing machine together with draw the  panto pattern over together with over 1 time again amongst the stylus on the carriage.  Your encephalon together with muscles volition shout out back the pattern together with move able to create a smoothen together with flowing work amongst a pantograph.

I would strongly recommend waiting, together with doing pantograph patterns later. Initially, it is improve to focus  on creating overall lines designs yourself. This requires a fleck of letting acquire together with loosening upward hence you lot tin dismiss together with brand mistakes together with larn from them. Trying to create the perfect pantograph interferes amongst this process. First, larn to relax together with depict your ain lines. It takes a few quilts together with lots of practise to arrive at fluency amongst costless motility designs. Once you're able to guide the railroad vehicle where you lot desire it to acquire for your ain designs, you lot move able to tighten upward to create the panto designs. 

The Thread Stand

The other 2 bits of metallic also check onto the top carriage. These remaining 2 bits brand a thread stand upward hence that older sewing machines, without extend-able thread guides, tin dismiss nonetheless role the larger cross-wound thread cones. Once the thread goes through the optic of the thread guide, you lot only thread your sewing machine every bit normal.

Many of the newer sewing machines, similar my JUKI TL98P come upward with extend-able thread guides already built in. But these bits together with pieces are included amongst our frames to brand certain that whatever sewing machine tin dismiss accept payoff of the to a greater extent than economical cross-wound cones. 

The MQ frame has an integral thread stand

Now you lot know what the metallic bits are for. Most people using our Machine Quilter frames invest inwards the Juki TL QVP Mini similar a shot stitch sewing machine to role on the frame. The Juki TL QVP Mini comes amongst its ain extendable thread guide hence the bits are unnecessary. 

Instead nosotros furnish a triangular wooden base of operations hence that you lot tin dismiss nonetheless role the bits OFF the frame.  Put the curt fleck inwards the bigger hole inwards the middle. Put the long sparse fleck amongst the loop on the halt inwards the smaller hole to the side. Now you lot create got an extendable thread guide that allows you lot to role the larger, to a greater extent than economical cross injure cones on your ordinary sewing machine. It's just a picayune gift from us to you.

using the thread stand upward off the frame

Simply house the cone on the thread stand, exceed the thread through the metallic loop together with thread your sewing machine every bit normal.

 Now you lot tin dismiss role the larger cross injure cones amongst whatever sewing machine, no affair how old.