Meet your match with the HQ Amara 20, the new longarm from Handi Quilter.
Twenty inches of creativity at your fingertips. From baby quilts to king-size, the HQ Amara is the perfect fit for your style of quilting. The HQ Amara 20 is designed for use with the HQ Studio2 Frame, available in Australia on a 12 foot frame, everything you need for free-motion quilting right out of the box.
Machine Features
- 20″ of brightly-lit throat space
- Pinpoint Needle Laser
- Easy-Set Tension™
- 7-inch colour touchscreen (add the Pro-Stitcher® and use that tablet for your machine display instead.
- Menu-controlled QuiltMaster™ LED lighting package: throat, needlebar, and bobbin.
- QuiltMaster™ front handlebars: independently adjustable, ergonomic with integrated micro handles
- QuiltMaster™ servo-controlled stitch regulation (perfect stitches, every time)
- Programmable handlebar buttons
- Stitching speeds up to 2,500 stitches per minute
- Consistent stitch quality from 4-24 stitches per inch
- Two modes of stitch regulation: Precision or Cruise
- Five convenient built-in tie-off stitches
- High-speed rotary hook with large-capacity M-class bobbin
- Manual mode with three customizable preset speeds
- Pro-Stitcher ready! All necessary cabling is pre-installed inside
- Handi Feet®- compatible; (ruler foot and open-toe foot)
- On-screen hand wheel
- Magnetic Tool Minder Collar
- Bobbin-use estimator
- Front power switch
- Thread-break sensor and alarm
- Stitch counter
- Easy needle change
- Needle-stop up/down control
- Five basting Stitches
Easily operate HQ Pro-Stitcher from a lightweight touchscreen tablet computer that is conveniently mounted on top if the machine. The HQ Pro-Stitcher is available for the Simply 16, Avante 18, Fusion 24 or Infinity 26. Expand your quilting possibilities with this easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, computerised system and have fun finishing more quilts! Combine your own design skills with Art & Stitch (included) to create one-of-a-kind quilting motifs.
Software Features
- Includes more than 1,000 designs
- Resize, Rotate and Repeat designs to fit specific areas
- Skew or Align designs to fit any area with three or more points
- Move designs into position by simply moving your finger across the screen
- Define and Fill an area with a design, using 2-orner (rectangles) or multi-point (any shape)
- Two-Point Rotation for border designs and fitting odd angles
- Precisely reposition designs using the Centre Point, Start Point, End Point any corner of the design area, or any point within the design
- Crop the inside or outside of your design to fit your quilt, with the option to close the jumps or leave them open
- Find or create new start/stop point if your thread breaks
- Customisable speed and stitches-per-inch
- Micro Tie-Off function
- Ability to read most .hqf, .txt and .qli digital quilt patterns
- Exclusive, seamless integrated with Art & Stitch included for designing and adjusting your own patterns at the machine
- Mark and record multiple points for accurate stitch-in-the-ditch quilting
- On-screen Grid and Ruler to measure designs or area on quilt
- Reorder designs for stitching
- Horizontal and vertical channel lock