Stablizing Your Up Front Circle Lord

If you choose the "Up Front" stylus system for your Circle Lord Basic Plus then you will need to stabalize the template base (this is the grey plastic piece that the templates atatch to). There are several ways to do this.....

1) you could go with Michaels suggestion and use the corrgugated cardboard

This is the least expensive method, the cardboard you see in the above pic is what I found in the box that my Circle Lord came in, so it didn't cost me any additional $. But over time it won't hold up very well.

2) You could go to Home Depot and purchase Plexi-Glass and velcro adhesive

The Plexi-glass that you see here was a pre-cut 18"X24" .220 thickness (This was the perfect size for my APQS Liberty machine if you have a larger machine the size you need will be larger than the 18"), it sits on top of my quilt top roller and my levelor roller then I place the white arm pieces of the basic CL unit on top of the plexi-glass. If you want to secure the CL arms to the plexi-glass then you can use the vecro adhesive strips. I found the above at Home Depot as well. Just make sure that you get the one that is for plastics.

To do this you would place a hook side of velcro to the under side of each of the white CL arms then put the loop side of the velcro strip on the plexi-glass after you get it to where you like it. This set up is not bad $ wise...the plexi-glass was $19.25 and the velcro was little over $3.00. But it is very sturdy everything is perfectly level and will last a long time, that is if you don't drop it on a tile floor and crack it (I did this to one of my arcrylic rulers).

3) The thrid option is to use a Pattern Port (I believe Mary Beth came up with this idea)

 

I got the pattern port from http://www.thepatternman.com/ just put pattern port in the search and they will pop up for all the different styles of machines. Since my machine is smaller than the APQS Millie I had to go with the HQ16 size is sells for $69.00. This is far the most expensive way to go but if you already have one of these laying around like I did then use it. Works great.