? about longarm quilting
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I am not familiar with the process of long arm quilting but have seen some really beautiful pictures of their work. How is this done? Free motion? or is there a pattern they follow? Is the long arm computerized and goes on its own? How do they keep the patterns so perfect and same throughout the quilt? I have done some free motion quilting on my sewing machine and no two patterns are the same...I'm such a novice but I am too lazy to draw the patterns onto the quilt.
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all of the above, it can be done all those ways, pantos are paper patterns you follow witha laser and are pretty consistant, i think the computer programed designd are most perfect and consistant but i have seen some freehand that is the most beautiful work i've seen
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some long arm quilters free hand everything
some use pantos (paper patterns they lay out and follow with a laser stylis
there are rulers/design boards some quilters have and use- and some have computer capabilities- where they can design their patterns and make the machine do the stitching...they still have to stay close- and keep (involved) you can't just start a machine and walk away to come back sometime later and find a finished quilt-
it takes work-regardless of the machine capabilities....just like piecing the quilts in the first place.
there are lots of tutorials you could watch to see a quilt being quilted by a long arm quilter.
some use pantos (paper patterns they lay out and follow with a laser stylis
there are rulers/design boards some quilters have and use- and some have computer capabilities- where they can design their patterns and make the machine do the stitching...they still have to stay close- and keep (involved) you can't just start a machine and walk away to come back sometime later and find a finished quilt-
it takes work-regardless of the machine capabilities....just like piecing the quilts in the first place.
there are lots of tutorials you could watch to see a quilt being quilted by a long arm quilter.
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thanks, I wondered how they got those patterns to be so perfect. And I know what you mean about the ones that don't use patterns, they are still really wonderful. I will see if you tube has any videos on long arm quilting.
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