Line Dancing

Fred & Ginger inwards Swing Time
"Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, and she did it backwards together with inwards high heels!"
What a vivid line! It makes me smile. It likewise brings to heed the minute argue why I dearest machine quilting on a frame:


A machine quilting frame lets you lot draw amongst your needle.





I think, maybe the coolest characteristic of a machine quilting frame is the wagon that rides on a ready of tracks. Sit your sewing machine on this wagon together with you lot tin glide your sewing machine effortlessly every-which-way across the transcend of your perfectly tensioned quilt.This is the characteristic that you lot request to come across to believe. No affair how much enquiry you lot exercise ahead of time, this slowly gliding of the sewing machine volition astonish you. It's similar magic. The wagon transforms your needle into a pen together with anything you lot tin draw, you lot tin quilt.

Most people loathe wrestling a quilt nether the arm of a sewing machine, together with and hence trying to tension the layers while drawing backwards. Trying to FMQ spell sitting at the sewing machine is counter-intuitive because the needle is stationary together with the quilt is moving. That's similar trying to write or describe past times belongings the pencil nevertheless together with moving the paper. No wonder hence many of us discovery this difficult! It requires a whole novel ready of skills - closed to people look to create out this but I never could. My stitches were jerky together with uneven spell my cervix together with shoulders only got to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than tense. Machine quilting sitting at the sewing machine was a hurting inwards the neck!



Using a machine quilting frame changes all this. There is no wrestling the quilt nether the arm of the machine. The frame perfectly tensions the layers of the quilt creating a nevertheless together with steady 'canvas' for you lot to describe on. The slowly motion of the carriage enables you lot to describe amongst your needle only the means you lot own got been writing together with doodling together with drawing all your life. And since you're moving the 'pen' the means you lot ever have, you're proficient at it correct from the start.

I dearest to take away heed people comment when they assay our frame for the outset time;

"Wow! I tin exercise this!" 
"Look at this beautiful trouble of stitching!"
"I only wrote my name! "
"This is hence easy!" 
"I Could exercise this all day!"  

But don't own got my give-and-take for it. Come view us together with assay it for yourself. We offering gratuitous Demonstrations at our Lincolnshire studio or come upwardly together with visit us at the 2017 Festival of Quilts we're at stand A46 amongst the JUKI guys. Some people tell that free-motion-quilting is similar taking a trouble for a walk. But amongst our machine quilting frame it's to a greater extent than similar taking a trouble for a glide. That's why nosotros telephone outcry upwardly it 'Line Dancing!'

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