Isn't it just beautiful!!!! My new long arm is finally up and running and happily situated in an12X11 and 1/2 square foot basement bedroom, the Quilt Cave #2. It takes up half of the bedroom and the doors were needed to be taken off the closest so I could maneuver around to the back to roll the bottom leader up and turn on and off the machine.
Jen, my friend and A1 dealer, had the long arm at her home while we waited "patiently" for the table to be made and sent. I had wanted a 10 foot instead of the larger 12 or 14 foot table so it had to be custom made by an Amish company back East. It finally arrived, crated in heavy duty wood boxes and weighing 500 pounds between the two of them. There it sat in our garage for another week until I could be worked into Jen's hectic schedule.
I had tried to get more men to come help move it from the garage to the basement, but in the end there was only Roger and JC, Jen's husband, and luckily that was all that was needed. The rollers went down separately and then the 10 foot long table - through the front door, turned down the hallway, down the stairs, into the family room, down the hall, turned into the quilt room and finally into it's new home.
Jen and JC are pros at putting these things together and the job was completed in just about an hour.
Add to that three hours of instruction on how to load the machine, thread it and handle the controls and I am now off and running. It's an interesting change from free motion quilting on my domestic Bernina, but I am starting to get the hang of it, slowly - ever so slowly.
If you want to know where I'll be for the next few months, just check down in the Quilt Cave.
Fantastic!!!! Oh heaps and heaps of sewing machine envy!!!
ReplyDeleteI suspect a bit of cleaver manoeuvring went into getting that table around the stairs. I am DESPERATE to have a go. I've decided not to take a quilting cruise around the Caribbean or Alaska, I shall take a quilting retreat at YOUR house. Now I wish I had bought the house along the road, then I could just pop by and play too (though I guess just buying a long arm would be a bit cheaper)!
Have you come up with a name for it yet, (you can't keep calling it long arm, that just isn't politically correct and may hurt its little sewing machine feelings)?
Tea Tutorials Retreat time - will be anytime you can make it!!!!! - no need for those costly cruises. I am really, really enjoying it and just pulled up the green quilt above. It's all practice this and that, but I think I will
Deletetrim and bind it as my first. Yes, you two should have bought the house down the street. How fun would that have been.