Machines

A Pfaff Quilt Expression 4.0.  It was released last week and arrived at the dealer this morning.  I had it home by lunch.  Can you say obsessed?

And as soon as I got it home it went on the floor while I quilted with the Mega Quilter.  Maeve was not pleased with that decision.

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9/17/08 Update – My thoughts on the Pfaff Quilt Expression 4.0 after one month

I wrote a while back about the problems I was having with my Rowenta and how I thought the self clean feature had  fixed it all.  And it did fix it.  And then it broke the next day.  So I’ve been ironing with no stem or spray for months now.  Not good for sewing quilts.

The husband picked up a new Shark this weekend at Costco.  So far the $30 Shark is outpreforming the $100 Rowenta by leaps and bounds.

Now that the Hinterberg Voyager 17 mess is all over with it was time to look for (another) new machine to help with quilting.  I went back to what I had been looking at — the Pfaff Grand Quilter.  Did some reading and decided that’s what I wanted.

The local dealer didn’t have the Pfaff in stock but they did have the Viking Husqvarna version (the Mega Quilter).  Tried it out.  Sold.  It was a little dicey at the beginning when they were showing me the machine and the thread kept breaking.  I almost ran out of the store screaming.  Thankfully the bobbin case just wasn’t inserted all the way.  A little nudge and it was stitching flawlessly.

In my reading before going into the store I found out the Pfaff and Viking are made by Janome and Janome has a 9″ machine with their label as well but we decided that it was worth buying the Pfaff so we could have local dealer support if necessary.

The is a carefully cropped photo… the mess beside, below and beyond the machine must not be revealed.

It’s only done a little bit of work so far but it stitched beautifully.  Wub.

Hinty (aka the Hinterberg Voyager 17) is going bye-bye (aka returned).

But the Hinterberg Voyager 17 has only caused gobs and gobs of frustration. It’s supposed to be a really good machine but I just want to throw it out the window. For it’s sake, it’s a good thing it weighs 75 pounds otherwise it would have found a new home in the creek out back by now. Poor Galaga was supposed to be done and listed on Etsy by now.