Flynn Multi-Frame Quilting System

Pictures are from my second quilt. (First one was pretty bad but a lot of it was me getting used to my new sewing machine.) the more you do it the easier it gets. One thing that really helped me was setting a maximum speed on my machine so no matter how hard you stomped on the pedal it only goes about 2 stitches per second. The slower stitching gave me just enough time to figure out what I was going to do next. This frame is excellent, easy-ish to figure out. One thing I got hung up on was how many rollers to use. He goes into great detail about putting the batting on a separate spool. All I do is make the complete quilt sandwich, roll it up on a spool, keeping it tight. Attach end of quilt to other spool (on the fabric tether) and roll from there. I’m very happy with this. My quilts are done in days instead of months, and the machine quilting can be excellent.

I love this product. I have been quilting for around 4 years now and hate that I always mess up the back of the quilt because pins do not give proper tension. I have always created folds on the backs of my quilts that look really unprofessional and do not want to use sprays or sticky batting. I have only a small, cheap machine but figured that I would give this frame a chance. I have completed my first quilt on it and it looks beautiful. I did a very simple design and look forward to doing more complicated ones in the future.When I first opened up my package and watched the video I really thought I would return it. It seems really complicated, bulky and it does require alot of adjusting and tacking. It really "feels" like a homemade engineering project and I thought that it would end up being pointless. I am really glad I gave it a chance. Because all the pieces are adjustable and "simple" it means that I can make a wide variety sizes and styles of quilts as well as getting replacement parts. It is time consuming but moving around the safety pins took just as long and was not effective. I have only 5" clearance from the needle to the back of my machine so I need to roll the quilt more than most people. I do not mind the time and effort considering how much time I put into piecing a quilt. I also love than when not in use it all comes apart and fits well in an upright box in the corner of my room. It takes up alot of room when together but stores in very little space.I think that if you are like me and looking for a working solution to tension problems when quilting & do not mind the time and effort it takes to do that than this frame is a wonderful purchase. If you are looking for something that just snaps together, looks like an industrial frame and requires little effort than you will be disappointed.

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.

I've been thinking about getting this Flynn Multi-Frame Quilting System for several years, ever since I saw it at a county fair, but for about the same amount of money at the time, I ended up getting a much larger Grace floor frame (NM EZ3) which worked great, but just took up so much room in my home. I made one quilt with it, then took it apart and put it in storage.Recently, I discovered that Amazon sells this Flynn Quilt System for less than at the Flynn website so I decided to order it. Huge mistake.The frame arrived not only VERY used with black marker writing on all the tubes, red end pieces, and white fabric, which was already attached to the yellow tubes, but ALL of the hardware was missing from the box.....yes, ALL hardware was missing....there were no bolts, no black end pieces to hold the tubing, no tension ribbons, and NO instructions.The box had so many labels on it, that it was obvious this box kept being sent out, returned, sent out, returned....From what I could tell, I was the fourth person to receive it, and yes, send it back.If I decide to buy this again, I'm getting directly from the Flynn Quilt website

I bought this item because at the current time I cannot afford a long arm quilting machine. The prep work is very lengthily and takes a lot of time before even using it. After rolling the different rods it does work on a regular machine but unless you have a wide throat machine the quilting space is limited. I was using a Baby Lock Soprano machine and I found it very difficult to see where I was going as I was quilting. Over all it's a very awkward usable product. If you don't have the space to run the frame back and forth this is not the product you need.