HQ Sweet Sixteen Sit-Down System

The HQ Sweet Sixteen®  from Handi Quilter

The best selling sit-down longarm machine on the market today. 

Introducing the most technologically advanced way to sit-down free motion quilt with stitch-regulation. Handi Quilter’s HQ Sweet Sixteen is simply the best way for quilters to tackle projects with a sit-down machine.

If you love to free-motion machine quilt but struggle to fit your project in the small throat space of a domestic sewing machine, you’ll love the HQ Sweet Sixteen^®. Sixteen inches of throat space gives you room to quilt even a king-size quilt. The smooth surface of the included table enables your project to glide under the needle. The powerful motor quilts with ease and stitches up to 1500 stitches-per-minute. Choose your three favorite speed settings, on the easy-to-use color touch screen and let the machine remember them.

Quilt Projects of All Sizes While Seated

• Full 16 inches of throat space
• Provides more than three times the quilting space of domestic sewing machines
• More than 8 inches vertical space
• Speeds up to 1500 precision stitches-per-minute
• High-speed rotary hook with large capacity M-class bobbin
• Useful half-stitch for basting or walking stitch, controlled with touch screen or foot pedal
• Smooth 30” x 36” table surface assures even quilting
• Additional 18" table extension available for both sides of the table
• Hopping foot prevents fabric movement during a full-stitch cycle
• Works with HQ rulers for perfect stitch-in-the-ditch and curved quilting lines

Easy-to-use system Designed by a Quilter, for Quilters^®

• Easy setup and take-down
• Accommodates any thread: cotton, polyester, rayon, metallics, holographic, etc.; allows for bobbin work with larger threads
• Change needles easily with thumb screw
• Responsive foot pedal
• Innovative light ring illuminates the quilting area with 28 LEDS
• Can be upgraded to a stand-up machine if desired
• Adjustable color-touch screen
• Customizable speed control
• Save your preferred speed settings. Save one speed setting for slow, controlled quilting; one for free-motion; and another for fast all-over designs
• Stitch counters: lifetime and resettable trip meter
• Hardware, software and serial number information
• Diagnostics
• Volume control
• Built-in calculator

What comes in the box?

• HQ Sweet Sixteen 16" Longarm Quilting Machine
• Included Table - Height Adjustable 26"- 42"
• 4 extra bobbins, 20 needles, sample thread pack
• Getting Started DVD
• Machine User Manual and instructions