Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I purchased this because I can't afford a longarm. I have done free motion quilting on my home machine but find the pinning and unpinning process tedius and I occasionally would end up with puckers on the back. I'm in the process now of using this for a baby quilt. At first I thought I was missing the how-to dvd so I found a good (but very boring) video on YouTube and put it together fairly quickly. I later found the dvd. Basting the backing and top to the leaders was quicker than pinning a quilt and the tension stays nice and tight. No puckers. I'm using a stippling pattern but I think it would be hard to get to creative because you have a very small area to work with. This depends on the throat of your machine and the are gets smaller as more of the quilt gets rolled onto the top roller. Sewing goes quickly though. It probably takes longer to reposition the quilt than it does to sew a strip. It's pretty easy to roll it to a new section though. It will be easier if you have a machine you can stop with the needle in the down position and a machine with a stitch regulator would be nice too. You can buy longer rollers or conduit so you can do larger quilts but honestly I think it would be clumsy and awkward. Keep in mind you need an area twice as long as the frame to work in so it can roll back and forth. Overall, if you do a lot of wall hanging, lap or baby quilts and don't use more than a stipple or other basic meandering stitch, it's excellent. Just be aware of it's limitations.