Argggggh!

My friend bought a new sewing machine several years ago. She paid around $600 for it - which her husband thought was an astronomical price to pay for a sewing machine! Since she paid so MUCH for the machine, he thought she should be able to toss the fabric in the sewing room, close the door and she would come back to a completed whatever! If he only knew what the top-of-the-line machines are going for now. :-)

Donna in SW Idaho

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Y'know, with cad cam, and diecut, embroidery, & longarm quilting machines, that may not be all as far-fetched/science fictiony as it seems. Your estimated price point may not be all that far off either (at first, anyway, but that's how it goes...)

How's about a version of EQ or Quilt Pro (et al) where you design your quilt, click FILE>EXECUTE, and it goes online, orders the fabrics, etc., receives, cuts, pieces, embroiders, appliques, trapunts/ trapunto[e]s(?) assembles, and quilts, etc. the whole shebang "...AND IT COMES OUT HERE!"

I could deal with that!

Doc

With Electric Quilt you can scan your fabrics, use them to "colour" your block and then print it out onto a piece of fabric. Presto!! A "perfectly-pieced" block with no sewing!!! :P

Allison

Show him some shop machine for the same price and he'd no doubt rave about what a great bargain/deal it was.

Someone should drag him down to the LQS and show him one of the $12K Bernina 830s (or equiv.) Bring smelling salts/a defibrillator...

On the flipside, and giving the nod to equality, that old saying about "the difference between men & boys is the price of their toys" is increasingly applying to women & girls.

Doc

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You're EVIL!!!

I do need a break. And I do all my really precise piecing on my Pfaff

7570 -- maybe the finest little stitcher in the world. I love my 6600 for power jobs -- quilting and stitching through many layers and the like. It's great for stitching paper and fabric concoctions. But PP is just evil in my opinion. And I've royally messed this up.... Got to start over and redo the whole shebang. When I went to put the halves together, they nowhere near match up. Sigh.

Sunny heading upstairs to eat some jello with cool whip on top

I don't like paper-piecing at all! But I also don't like piecing on a sewing machine. Instead, I do it by hand, and have found that my marking the stitching lines rather than the cutting lines, pinning very carefully, and hand-piecing comes out as precise as anything I have ever seen. It takes a bit of time, of course, but I enjoy the work and am not in a hurry.

Taria, with the 6600 I found that I need to move my needle over a bit to the right to get a perfect scant 1/4 in. seam allowance (use the adjustment for the zig-zag width). Be sure to play with the adjustments or you'll end up with an *exact* 1/4 in. seam and it won't work out very well.

The feed dogs work better with the foot at a true 1/4 in. and by moving the needle, too. And that's with both the standard 1/4 in. foot and the Accu-Feed 1/4 in. foot. Both of mine need a little tweaking.

Just a little head's up here. ;-)

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Same here. 3.7 is my magic number mostly.

Rita

I love to use the pfaff 1/4" foot with side flange for all piecing - everything always lines up and the points are the 'pointiest' when the job is done. The foot costs about $25 and is worth every penny. jennellh

That's what is so funny about this. The guy is a wood worker, so he has tools and machines, and . . . .

Donna in SW Idaho

Someone should drag him down to the LQS and show him one of the $12K Bernina 830s (or equiv.) Bring smelling salts/a defibrillator...

On the flipside, and giving the nod to equality, that old saying about "the difference between men & boys is the price of their toys" is increasingly applying to women & girls.

Doc

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I have a single hole foot for the Pfaff that is a perfect scant 1/4 inch. I also have the single hole throat plate. It's heavenly. No more corners sucked down into the bobbin thread, no more ... lots of things, LOL (the old brain is pretty well shot today). I like that much better than sewing with the flanged 1/4 foot.

I also have to adjust the needle on my 6600 to get a good scant 1/4 inch. I still prefer the Pfaff for precision work. Just something smoother about the way it stitches and moves the fabric along.

Sunny

Thanks Leslie. I know that stuff. : ) I just got the 'clear view quilting foot and guide set' part# 200-449-001. It might be more to my liking. I never use the accufeed foot for 1/4". Even when I adjust it right (everytime I hav to refer to my notes for the setting) I just don't enjoy it. The regular one I use occasionally. Hopefully if I get some time to piece I can report back happier on the new foot. In the mean while you would appreciate me here finishing up a new doggy bed for a friend's pooch. It is pretty cute. Taria

We want to see the new doggy bed. Just how cute is it? Polly

I find using a 1/4 inch foot on my Bernie (180) that the feed dogs are 'outside' the foot, so they don't feed the fabric. Likewise when using the zipper foot. What am I doing wrong?

My default is to use the generic feet or the walking foot and move the needle. I am very confused about this and it never happened withmy older Frister and Rossman machine. Actually it still doesn't, I'm even tempted to sell the expensive one and revert to the old workhorse, which is 35yrs old!

Suggestions? Nel (GQ)