Long-Arm quilting

There are many, many long-arm quilters out there and I have heard the term “quilting by checkbook” cleverly used by those quilters that hire long-arm quilters to do the quilting on their projects. But how many of us have never used a long-arm quilter?  I suspect there are quite a few.  As for me, I had been quilting for many years before I finally decided to have someone else do the quilting for me.  Part of it was a trust issue; but it was mostly not knowing how to go about hiring a long-arm quilter in the first place.  Did I need to do somethingRead More →