Grace Sturdy-Lite Machine Quilting System w/ FREE quilt design software

An easy-to-assemble quilting system with the lowest cost of any frame on the market. A free-standing system with high-quality birch ply-hardwood construction and innovative design take the Sturdy-Lite beyond table top products. It requires no table for use, making it a complete quilting system. It is an ultra-affordable frame for the beginning machine quilter and includes several features seen in more expensive stand-alone units. Click here for frame building instructions.

Features:
- 98" Queen work area (plan for 3-4" of working space on each side of your fabric)
- Carriage will move 10" forward and backwards
- The carriage holds sewing machines that are within these measurements: 9" wide, 18" long, and 13.5" inside height

Smooth Tracking

The Sturdy-Lite provides one of the smoothest, quietest track systems you can find. Precision bearing wheels, wobble-free platforms, and seamless plastic tracks that install perfectly straight with no seams or bumps!

Fabri-Fast Rails Included

This is a no-baste, three-rail system. Custom-designed rails come with the new Fabri-Fast system for fast and easy fabric installation. Simply push your fabric and tubing into the Fabri-Fast slot with the Fabri-fast tool included. Fabric goes in and stays in straight and clean.

Easy Grip Handles

Free motion quilt from the needle side of the machine..

...Or quilt from the back of the machine to follow patterns.

Pointer Included

The Sturdy-Lite comes with a wooden stylus ideal for following your favorite pantographs.

Lock in Your Tension

The Sturdy-Lite is equipped with 30-tooth ratchet wheels and double lock stops to provide fine front-to-back fabric tension.

Optional bungee clamps are available to provide excellent side tension in a quick, easy-to-use manner. Simply apply clamps to your quilt, pull the bungee cord until taut, and secure the cord in the slot on the frame end.

Includes FREE QuiltCAD design software!

QuiltCAD is an easy-to-use stitch-design software, allowing you to create/layout/print full quilt-top and pantograph stitch designs. It is actually 2 applications in one: QuiltCAD, the quilt layout and pattern placement tool, and PatternCAD, the continuous line pattern design editor.

QuiltCAD Features:

• Quilt Layout - Create quilt layouts that range in size from 2 inches by 2 inches to 14 feet by 14 feet.
• Block Layout - Dynamically select the number of block rows an columns.
• Powerful Block Selection Tools - Targets your pattern placement and shaping.
• Auto-pattern Sizing - Patterns will automatically size themselves to the blocks' dimensions.
• Pattern Shaping - Stretch, rotate, scoot, and flip your patterns
• Design Preview - Full-screen view of quilt design.
• Print-to-Scale - Yes, print your own patterns, quilt layouts, and pantographs to scale. Pages are numbered and calibrated for precise alignment.
• Automatic Border Creation - Orients and connects patterns into continuous borders.

PatternCAD Features:

• Quick N EZ Pattern Creation Tools - Automatically creates literally thousands of fascinating patterns.
• Design Templates - Guide you in making designs that seamlessly mesh with QuiltCAD's advanced blocking features
• File Exporting - Saves pattern designs in formats readily adaptable to existing computer controlled quilting machines.
• Full-fledged Standard Editing Features - Stretch, Flip, Rotate, Copy, Paste, Move, etc.
• Dual Drawing Layer - Break complex designs into simple parts, store and merge them on the layers
• Background Selection - Grid, Clear or Images for Tracing!
• Powerful Mirroring Functions - Design beautiful patterns through the repetition and symmetry of mirrors.

Create/layout full quilt-top stitch designs.

The power of QuiltCAD lies in its simplicity and in its functionality. Both QuiltCAD and PatternCAD have been designed from the ground up, putting you, the quilt designer, first and foremost.

These two fully-integrated applications enable you to go from pattern creation to finished quilt stitching in a matter of minutes. You will be astonished at the ease by which you can create beautiful continuous line patterns and quilt stitch designs.

• Quick Layout - Simply choose a pattern to create a full pantograph or quilt layout
• Quilt Layout - create an entire quilt layout by selecting a single pattern

Printer Friendly - QuiltCAD includes over 100 patterns, but it also has the ability to allow you to design and print personalized patterns.

Create Patterns - QuiltCAD also allows you to develop patterns based on imported photos and images--making your designs come to life on your quilt!

User Friendly - QuiltCAD has easy to follow tutorials, and you are able to save your designs for a later time.