Hi Renae, I am in the process of buying a long arm machine and frame. I already have experience with free motion quilting on my sewing machine, so I don't really need too much help with that. My question relates to the DVDs and CDs. How much of this will help me with getting some longarm experience? It appears that the DVDs demonstrate and focus more on the short arm machines, which I already know. I'm sure there are other tips in there as well, but could most of that be gotten from the books? What about the Design Builder Mastery and Skillbuilder Mastery? Do they have class instruction as well or just patterns? I'm just trying to find the best package for me. Thanks~ Deb
Hi Deb,
Given your experience I think the most helpful product would be Design Builder book, CD, and panel. The panel does not have quilting design printed lines. The different blocks, borders, sashing, and corner posts allow practice with long arm tools, techniques or free hand. The book explains some techniques such as laser light, templates, and pantos. It also gives twelve ideas for quilting each block and ideas for sashings, corner posts and borders. The CD prints out the designs so they could be used with an upper or lower laser light, Golden Threads/Quilt and Tear paper, traced, or just used as a reference for free hand.
Skillbuilder Mastery book might be helpful in selecting and creating different designs for squares, triangles, octagons, stars, and borders. The CD rom prints all the designs on Skillbuilder 1 & 2 panels and in Skillbuilder Mastery book.
You might also find Feather Fundamentals helpful for learning to quilt different feathers depending on your experience with feathers. That information is the same for both systems.
Good luck with the long arm. I use both long arm and domestic but I have better control on intricate quilting with my domestic machine.
Renae
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