The Big 5

We're busy getting ready for the Festival of Quilts. We love the show! The fun of preparations, ordering the threads and completing the display quilts, the buzz when we get there on the Wednesday and greet the familiar faces of the other stall holders and show staff. Then it's all go as we unload the car, find the stand and set up the frames and hang up the quilts and arrange the threads. Everyone all around us is busy creating order from all the jolly chaos as one by one the stands are finished and the Festival of Quilts gets ready to open the doors for yet another year. There's nothing quite like it. 

Suddenly it's Thursday morning and the bell rings and thousands of people pour into the Halls to participate in the biggest Quilt Show in Europe; admiring the exhibitions and wandering around the stands, checking out the new fabric and the latest gadgets.All the new sewing machines and quilting frames are on display making the Festival the perfect opportunity to try and compare everything on offer. From the minute the doors open on Thursday morning until the Show closes on Sunday afternoon, we at Machine Quilter are busy answering two big questions:

 "What's so great about machine quilting on a frame?"  

 "Why are our New English Quilter frames and the JUKI sewing machines so much better than all the others?"

Bob Purcell, Paul Hayes and Martha Milne

I've been demonstrating machine quilting frames ever since the very first Festival of Quilts in the summer of 2003. Nine years of personal experience and the responses of  thousands of people trying a frame for the first time, all  boils down to 5 reasons.  You can read all about it in the next few posts. Better yet, come visit our stand
A46, B36-38 at the Festival of Quilts and see
Five Reasons Why machine quilting on a frame is so great!