I've been renting at Sparrow Studioz for a while, and it is somewhat inconvenient as I have a day job. Rental wasn't working for me, and there was a conveniently timed sale on the smaller units... so I am the proud new owner of an APQS Lenni long arm! Cost of the machine vs. rental puts it at 30 quilts breakeven; I seem to make about 5 a year, so it might be a stretch to say it will break even, but makes up for the convenience of being able to quilt in the evenings when I have time rather than having to stock up for a weekend of solid rental/quilting.
I bought the cheapest solid cotton I could find so that I can do a bunch of practice stitching prior to loading up one of my pieced quilts to go hard on quilting. It is a seafoam blue/green and it is looking awesome so far. I was worried I'd have issues with the King Tut cotton as primarily people seem to use polyester thread on the long arms. The manual says I should be using a horizontal thread arm, but I don't appear to be having any issues with the thread on the normal feeder arm. We spent last Sunday at the Devonian Gardens Japanese Spring Festival. There was awesome Taiko drumming and lovely garden time in the sun.
Side bonus - they were selling seedlings so I bought some eggplants for my community garden bed :D |
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