I think you'll like it Lois

Dawn, I have the Janome Horizon and the lights in the harp are great, but the pressor foot still casts a shadow on the fabric. Lambina, I will try the Ikea lamp.

lorra wrote:
Cathy, I have overhead lighting plus an Ott lite near my machine. As I get older, I find I need more and more light
The Ott lite on its side really lit up that small area near the presser foot nicely.

With my HQ sit down machine, they have lighting on the machine plus I need a couple more lights in addition to the room lighting. I would like to have better overall lighting, those 8 foot fixtures sound wonderful!

Kathy

loise98 wrote:
I think it's just called the "bendable bright light". They were all the rage a couple of years ago, they attach to the side of your machine and give you a small light on the end of a flexible wand that you can point wherever you want. It's pretty helpful most of the time. Sometimes I get too much glare with it.

Kathy

Scoopie wrote:
Sure it will Dawn, IKEA is huge and they have it set up to where you have to go through it all before you can pay

Oh, Limbania, those are great lights! And, so much more affordable than the $50 one I saw at Festval, and also at my LQS! I'm thinking I need a couple of those! Thanks so much for sharing! (Of course, there are no Ikeas in Montana! I'll be shopping on-line or maybe I can visit one when I go to Festival in Houston. Wow! That could almost be as much fun as the quilt show!)

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

Kathy, I have two 8 foot florescent light fixtures above my longarm and Bernina area in the basement. They give me plenty of light. On the other end of the room I have just a regular light fixture that I want DH to replace with another florescent fixture. That would be over my cutting and ironing area. I like lots of light. I also have an Ott light on wheels that I can move around as needed, and 2 east facing windows.

Great minds think alight (forgive the pun ) Limbania. I have exactly the same lights from Ikea. The clip on ones are great.

Loise, the light on my 1950s Necchi is almos non existent. I found this very affordable lamps at IKEA http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/series/18294/ I got a couple of each, The clamp spotlight and the work lamp. They do a really good job an you can change the direction according to your needs. Hope this helps

kathyst2 wrote:
Yup! Thanks to Sally, that's just what I did, too! I have an older Janome, and I just slip the Ott light right into the harp, for smaller projects. Of course, that doesn't work for FMQ and I'm too cheap to spend $50 :shock: on the bendable bright light. I hope one of the Janome Horizons is in my future, because they have a light or two right in the harp area! Thanks for listening to your fans, Janome!


Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

Kathy, I have a Janome but I don't have a bendable bright light. What light do you have?

loise98 wrote:
Lois, I remember that Sally Collins did something with an ott-lite, one of those small models that opens up. she laid it down on its side, close to the actual machine, so the light shone directly at the presser foot from the right. Eliminated shadows! i did that for years before I got the janome with the good lighting *and* the bendable bright light. If you have her precision piecing book there's a picture in there, I can't remember if it's on her video.

Definitely improves the quantity and direction of the light!
Kathy

There is a lighting thing with my machine that bugs me. There is a shadow of the pressor foot on the fabric right where it goes under the pressor foot. Even a clear pressor foot casts a shadow. I don't know how that can be fixed but I'd love it if it could be.