Long Arm vs. Mid Arm: What would you do with a long arm?

Some quilters love to piece. Some quilters love to quilt. Why not do the thing that pleases you most?

For those of us who love to quilt, there is long arm lust.
What do I mean?

There are things your regular home sewing machine just doesn't do well. Like sew at a million stitches per minute and make room for big quilts with fat bats. If you've ever spent a month stuffing a very large quilt through the very small hole in your machine arm, you know what I mean.

Enter the long arm. A long arm is a machine based strictly for quilting. It can be hand guided or programmed. It can accommodate almost any size quilt. They started as a utilitarian machine, but many quilters are finding their art with a long arm that gives them so many more options. And if you lust over those quilts with massive, fabulous quilting, very often you're looking at long arm work.

There's really only two problems with a long arm. You have to stand up to use it ( or have a good movable seat). And they do pretty much take up a room.

Enter the mid arm. A mid arm machine has pretty much the same head (machine top) as a long arm. But it's set up for sitting sewers. And it takes up so much less space. 




Here's a comparison.

Long Arm                                   Mid Arm

Sew standing up                         Sew sitting down

Takes up a lot of space               Takes up the space of a home machine

Can be programmed                   Can’t be programmed

Move the machine head to sew    Move the quilt to sew

Handles all size quilts                  Handles most larger quilts

Fairly expensive investment         More moderate investment

Here's the good news! We have both a long arm and a mid are demo machine on sale. Come in and see what you might do if you had a long arm.