Part of the reason that my '70 340 Duster may be disappearing!!

[dstrtime]

My wife just got a longarm quilting machine to take her quilting skills to another level!
She's just used this machine to "finish" my 50th U.S. Nationals quillow by adding flame stitching to it!!
Now all we have to to do is finish paying for it.
I'm truly tickled as to how the addition of the flames took it to another level of COOL and had to share it here (hope it's in the proper spot)!!

 

[JDMopar]

Keep your Duster and just make the payments on the machine. My wife is a quilter too, and gone to a quilt show right now! Her sister has a Handy Quilter? longarm machine that they both run the heck out of between the 2 of them. Does your wife's machine have the computer deal that makes it pretty much a CNC machine? Sister in laws is a free motion machine, but they have been buying these things called Groovy Boards. Basically boards with patterns routed into them to make the stitching consistent all over the quilt. A stylus follows the pattern on the boards and the machine stitches that pattern while the girls run the machine with the ape hangers....lol. She did a nice job on the one in the pics!

 

[Super-Cuda]

My wife just got a longarm quilting machine to take her quilting skills to another level!
She's just used this machine to "finish" my 50th U.S. Nationals quillow by adding flame stitching to it!!
Now all we have to to do is finish paying for it.
I'm truly tickled as to how the addition of the flames took it to another level of COOL and had to share it here (hope it's in the proper spot)!!View attachment 1716238292View attachment 1716238293View attachment 1716238294View attachment 1716238295View attachment 1716238296View attachment 1716238297View attachment 1716238298

Now that's a whole other level of cool!!

 

[dstrtime]

Keep your Duster and just make the payments on the machine. My wife is a quilter too, and gone to a quilt show right now! Her sister has a Handy Quilter? longarm machine that they both run the heck out of between the 2 of them. Does your wife's machine have the computer deal that makes it pretty much a CNC machine? Sister in laws is a free motion machine, but they have been buying these things called Groovy Boards. Basically boards with patterns routed into them to make the stitching consistent all over the quilt. A stylus follows the pattern on the boards and the machine stitches that pattern while the girls run the machine with the ape hangers....lol. She did a nice job on the one in the pics!

Thanks so very much on complimenting her on her work! It's an absolute pleasure to see her progression.

This stitching was done on this existing project by free motion to allow her to avoid issues as she worked around different parts of the quillow.

Her machine is a APQS "Freddie on a 12' table that has some computer assistance and a laser system. It's like when my wife attempts to listen to me babble about cars and I hear "parts is parts" for me to elaborate on details of her new pal!

This thing is a "hot rod" (??!) in her eyes and from the look on her face while she's "creating" it's probably like me going 0.00 R.T., dead on 0 and the W!!

Thanks again for the positive comment!!

 

[missing linc]

Some incredible work on that! My mother has been quilting for decades, but that's really cool! Thanks for sharing it.

 

[Dartswinger70]

women have their expensive hobbies too eh...?

theres nothing like good equipment I always tell my wife to get "the good stuff buy it once and never worry about it again..."

 

[Big.J.007]

Pics of the 70 340 duster

 

[dstrtime]

This is the quilt that she created for me 30+ years ago.
It's so much fun to take a peek at this treasure and stroll down memory lane!!
Quilts truly do tell a story.

 

[Super-Cuda]

View attachment 1716238708View attachment 1716238709View attachment 1716238710View attachment 1716238711View attachment 1716238712View attachment 1716238713This is the quilt that she created for me 30+ years ago.
It's so much fun to take a peek at this treasure and stroll down memory lane!!
Quilts truly do tell a story.

WOW !!!

 

[dstrtime]

My wife's latest race shirt quilt completed!
Clay loved it.
Hope when Clay steps on the loud pedal this weekend that he brings him another Bristol Wally!!

 

[Mtrhead]

My grandmother made quilts all her life with the machine like (non electric)that without any thing but manual using her hands and stretching the machine out like saw horses..she made double wedding ring quilts to classic victorian...would take her 4 months on some...she sold them in the mid 80's $300 to $500 and we still have many...her scrap patchwork ones looked amazing with her eye for patterns and coordinating designs from her creativity...Your wives have a great hobby and I'm sure they can really make some impressive quilts

 

[Super-Cuda]

My wife's latest race shirt quilt completed!
Clay loved it.
Hope when Clay steps on the loud pedal this weekend that he brings him another Bristol Wally!!

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That is so cool!!

What a talent!

 

[RustyRatRod]

Kitty's quilting friend, our next door neighbor has one of those. It's in a separate building from their house. Her husband custom extended the rack to 20 feet long. She says the thing cost 30K. But she can program it, walk away and have a quilt in a little while. SHe's retired but uses it for some extra income. It'e purdy badass. She just had it repaired from the computer messing up to the tune of about 900 bucks. Before this one, I had never seen anything like it.

 

[JDMopar]

Sewing machines have come a LONG way, since back in our Grannie's Day. My wife has a Brother 10 needle embroidery machine and watching that thing work is just amazing. She gets the hoop centered up on it, then hits go and it does the entire pattern all by itself. It has 10 different colors of threads and will change needles to the one that corresponds to that color and keep on trucking. I will hear her upstairs setting it up, and when I hear beep, beep, beep of her programming it, I know it's getting ready to go. When she hits the GO button on that thing, it sounds like a freight train running upstairs....lol.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Sewing machines have come a LONG way, since back in our Grannie's Day. My wife has a Brother 10 needle embroidery machine and watching that thing work is just amazing. She gets the hoop centered up on it, then hits go and it does the entire pattern all by itself. It has 10 different colors of threads and will change needles to the one that corresponds to that color and keep on trucking. I will hear her upstairs setting it up, and when I hear beep, beep, beep of her programming it, I know it's getting ready to go. When she hits the GO button on that thing, it sounds like a freight train running upstairs....lol.

They have and they haven't. I still have Mama's 1958 Singer 185J in mint green. It is in almost like new condition. If you flip the machine up to view the under side, the linkage that drives the machine is all IRON and very heavy duty. There is NO plastic anywhere in the drive mechanism. I just recently brought it out of moth balls and cleaned and serviced it so Kitty would have something nice to sew on since her BRAND NEW Singer "heavy duty" machine took a crap. This thing sews like......a brand new one. Because it basically is. Look at the underneath drive linkage. LOL

 

[Mtrhead]

My grandma would roll over in her grave if she saw one of those things Rusty is talking about...Yes, JD technology has came a long way