What is Longarm Quilting?

What is longarm quilting and what does a longarm quilting machine look like?

Professional machine quilters use a large sewing machine, called a longarm machine, mounted on a quilt frame to stitch your quilt top, batting, and backing together. The quilt components are mounted on the frame individually, then rolled together as the machine moves over the quilt. In short - Longarm quilters use the machine to draw designs on your quilt with thread!

Your quilt can be finished in a fraction of the time of hand-quilting, with consistently high quality and at a reasonable cost!

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Here's Suzan stitching on Nettie, our first Gammill Classic longarm machine. Suzan is doing custom quilting on this beautifully appliqued quilt top, starting by stitching "in the ditch" around all of the seam lines and appliques. Stitch in the ditch gives the quilt its bone structure and keeps it straight and square when additional quilting is added.

This is our second Gammill Classic, Grace. She's nearly a twin to Nettie, but was purchased several years later. She doesn't have a quilt on the frame in this picture, so what you're seeing is just the frame with the "leaders" attached to the rollers. The quilt back gets clamped to the leaders, then the batting is laid on, followed by the quilt top. The red clamps are used to keep the backing taught side-to-side. That's a roll of batting stored underneath the frame.