Juki on a frame...
 

My husband just bought me a Juki 2000QI for our 28th wedding anniversary... Next is a frame.. but I'm curious if anyone owns one of these AND use it on a frame? Do you have much quilting room with that size/width throat? I'm hoping I'm wording this correctly :-) and thank you in advance for any advice on this machine.

Congrats, enjoy your new machine!

Thank you, mighty :-) I haven't even turned it on yet and I've had it a week.

i used my juki on a frame for years. after rolling a large quilt, you only have 3.5-4" for quilting depth. i did do a king sized quilt with it and was able to quilt 12" blocks by creatively breaking down the pattern. so it took4 or 5 passes sometimes to quilt that size block. before i moved from MN, i sold my set up and am happy to say that i bought a 17" baily that i'm waiting to arrive. best wishes with your new machine.

I believe that machine has a 9" harp, which is very limited for frame quilting. What happens is that, as you roll up the quilt, less and less depth is available for your quilting pattern. Although many people start with this type of shortarm setup, they very quickly want to graduate to a larger harp machine (a midarm or longarm). This particular Juki is often used for piecing and sit-down (non-frame) quilting, and is considered a shortarm machine.

I used to have my Juki on a frame, but found that I wasn't enjoying the quilting process due to tension issues, thread breakage, and any number of other issues. Turns out that something was out of whack on my machine and when I got it back I never put it back on the frame. If everything is working correctly, it seemed to me to take more time to put the quilt/batting/backing on the frame than the actual quilting.

I have my Juki 2010Q on a Grace GMQ Pro frame. True, it doesn't have a large harp but it is more than adequate for my quilting. And my budget. No way I could justify or afford a larger machine and it sure beats pushing your quilt around under a domestic machine! JMO

Mine is on a handi quilter frame and even tho I only have 9" of throat space, it works for me. If I have a quilt that is too large, I quilt until I can't roll anymore and then take it off and start from the other side.

Smart thinking!

I have a Juki and Babylock Jane both have 9" throats and I can quilt any size quilt I want. I don't have room for a frame and my set up works great for me.