Free motion challenged...

I just thought that I would let everyone know about a fantastic new
gizmo on the market. It is a robotic quilting system that uses your
EXISTING home sewing machine, quilting frame, and your home computer.
It's called the PC Quilter. This basically allows you to teach your
computer how to do your free motion quilting for you.

It's also cheaper (by doing your own quilts) than sending them out to
have someone long-arm them for you.

At any rate, I thought everyone might be interested in this. You can
see it online at http://www.pcquilter.com

Take care all...

There was one of these set up at the Tucson show this past weekend.
Remarkable. But what I liked was the frame they were using, and the part
that is being worked on for use in free motion quilting. It allows the
back roller to move forward so that you can quilt almost twice the depth
of the machine throat. (B-line frame, or something like that.)

Pati, in Phx

statik wrote:

I just thought that I would let everyone know about a fantastic new
gizmo on the market. It is a robotic quilting system that uses your
EXISTING home sewing machine, quilting frame, and your home computer.
It's called the PC Quilter. This basically allows you to teach your
computer how to do your free motion quilting for you.

It's also cheaper (by doing your own quilts) than sending them out to
have someone long-arm them for you.

At any rate, I thought everyone might be interested in this. You can
see it online at http://www.pcquilter.com

Take care all...

Yes, the frame it was being demo'd on was the B-Line, but the device
you are talking about is the Max Throat. There are plans to have a
version of Max Throat for the Handi-Quilter, the Grace, the
Pennywinkle and a few others, but the b-line is the first one that the
Max Throat is capable of working on. With a 7" sewing machine, you
can sew approximately 11-13 inches of throat depth, and with a 9"
sewing machine (Brother 1500, Juki TL98e, Babylock, new Jamome) you
can get almost 16" of movement.

It's a lot of fun, and beats paying $3200 (on the low end) for a 16"
sewing machine.

Statik


On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:33:31 GMT, Pati Cook
wrote:

There was one of these set up at the Tucson show this past weekend.
Remarkable. But what I liked was the frame they were using, and the part
that is being worked on for use in free motion quilting. It allows the
back roller to move forward so that you can quilt almost twice the depth
of the machine throat. (B-line frame, or something like that.)

Pati, in Phx

statik wrote:

I just thought that I would let everyone know about a fantastic new
gizmo on the market. It is a robotic quilting system that uses your
EXISTING home sewing machine, quilting frame, and your home computer.
It's called the PC Quilter. This basically allows you to teach your
computer how to do your free motion quilting for you.

It's also cheaper (by doing your own quilts) than sending them out to
have someone long-arm them for you.

At any rate, I thought everyone might be interested in this. You can
see it online at http://www.pcquilter.com

Take care all...