GOLDEN RULE CREATIONS

The quilt top, batting and backing are attached to rollers, creating a "sandwich." By pinning, stapling, or basting to the rollers, the need to pre-pin or baste the three layers together is eliminated. The longarm machine is positioned directly over the three quilt layers. During the quilting of the quilt, the rollers are manually advanced to keep the quilt secure and wrinkle free... The longarm operator stands on one side of the machine to follow a preprinted pattern called a "pantograph", for "hand guided" quilters. They use the other side of the machine to do free motion or custom quilting. For "computer guided" quilting, the quilter sets up the patterns to be used in the computer and stands on the side where the computer screen can be viewed They can also do free motion quilting from this side... A longarm quilting machine is a large, commercial, sewing machine. It is operated using hand controls or computer controlled and moves across the quilt with virtually little effort. The..