Oh, Rita, I'm sorry to hear this! Have you checked with an orthopedist? There may be exercises or some kind of treatment that would help. Maybe quilting for short times and taking breaks will work for you.

Or, you could buy a frame setup! LOL Very easy on the wrists. :) Takes up a lot of room, though.

Donna

Rita, I'm very sorry to hear about your problems with your wrist. I don't know if this would help, but Martelli makes what they market as Gripper Rings that I use with my sit-down Tiara. I think the smaller size would work with a DSM. They hold your quilting area flat and make it easier to move around. Here's a link to a YouTube video about them.

Here is a link that might be useful: Martelli Gripper Rings

what about quilting gloves? I have a pair that are purple, and have grippy type fingertips that makes it easier to hold onto a quilt. Also, the gloves are a little snug so add support to your whole hand... feels good just for regular use with arthritic hands.

Here is a link that might be useful: Grabaroos

That's OK Rita. Let the machine do the work for you. You can do beautiful quilting with the regular foot and the walking foot, with the feed dogs engaged. FM is just one aspect of quilting; you can do fine without it.

Kate

You can do beautiful quilts without FM. I also wear gloves when I quilt - whether I am doing in the ditch or FM. Hang in there!

Sue

No matter what the outcome for your quilting I hope you find a good physical therapist who'll help with your wrist. Anti inflamatories also help lessen the severity of arthritis pain. One of the counterintuitive solutions to arthritis pain seems to be...keep moving! Exercise is far from pain free, but it seems to hold the worst pain to a minimum.
LindaB/CA

Since DH is gone shooting, maybe I'll take a ride to Joann's for the gloves, they are having a sale and I have coupons, whichever comes first, thanks.

Rita.... I've also started with hand and finger joint pain, diagnosed with arthritis, so I wear hand supports at night, but what has helped tremendously is hand yoga exercises. I was skeptical at first, but within a week the pain and stiffness dissipated and I could work through the day without issue. A friend showed me how, perhaps if you google you can find some video's .
If I find something I'll send you a link.
V.

Rita, I remember when you had your accident-still, you are so lucky. I highly recommend pursuing a definite diagnosis since you had a severe injury to the wrist and hand. Please see a hand specialist, and make sure you do not have nerve damage and get a treatment plan for the pain and discomfort. Physical therapy may help, but you need to get the real cause of the pain to treat it properly.
For your quilting, I am taking the Craftsy class on straight line quilting -- wow -- is the quilting beautiful and do-able. It is slow, and methodical, lots of breaks and less stress on your hands than FMQ. I would hate to see you give it up entirely.

Hand yoga exercises! Val, you'll have to demonstrate at Retreat. This is something I need to know!

All of your care is so sweet. Yes, maybe I need to check further, the wrist was badly sprained, also lacerations, etc. but it did finally heal up. And of course, I closed out the auto insurance claim. Now that I'm having problems I am dreading this fact, wondering if I will have a problem if I seek further help. You see, next year DH's employer is threatening to cancel all employee's health insurance benefits, leaving us to twist in the wind. DH will also be eligible for Medicare next year but not me. I've heard that Obamacare is much more expensive than if you are getting group insurance and that is stressful since our insurance now is sky high and high deductible and co-pays as it is. So I've been hoping that this will clear up. Also my Dr. is very impersonal and I have a feeling that he isn't concerned enough, this is my fault because I haven't found a more suitable Dr., I live in a rural area where there aren't a lot of choices. So anyway, I did pick up a pair of quilting gloves today and will try them. They didn't have the ones that the above link were, the only ones they had were Fons and Porter's. V., if you have a link for the yoga do send it, and I'll look for it too.

Rita,
I tried to attached the link here, but the message rejected several times. If you do a google search, yoga hand arthritis, a few YouTube video's will result and essentially, those exercises will work.

If you send me an email, I will send you a link. Littlehelen at comcast dot net
V.