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Longarm quilting is the process by which a longarm sewing machine is used to sew together a quilt top, quilt batting and quilt backing into a finished top. The longarm sewing machine averages ten to fourteen feet in length and consists of an industrial sewing machine head, a ten-to-fourteen foot table, and several fabric rollers on which the fabric layers are placed. The use of a longarm quilting machine to finish a quilt top can significantly reduce the time spent hand quilting or machine quilting a quilt and is a large factor in the recent gain in popularity of this process.
History
The advent of the sewing machine brought about a newer idea known as the “quilting machine,” which made its debut in 1871. The first quilting frame and machine was comprised of only two bars that allowed the user to move the quilt and the frame beneath the machine to quilt straight, parallel lines on the fabric. Around 1877, the design had been modified several times, and began to look similar to the design quilters now know as a longarm quilting machine. Although electricity was not available, the machine ran using a hand crank system that moved the machine along the rails and over the fabric.
Almost thirty years later, the designs and patents for quilting machines had taken on some of the most drastic changes.
While the Depression era caused a decrease in the interest in sewing machines and an increase in hand sewing, the quilting machine still managed to take on new and exciting designs. Not until the past twenty years has the longarm sewing machine become a popular and familiar concept to quilters.
The quickness and ease with which a quilter can have a quilt top finished by a longarm quilter has caused an increase in recent years for quilting. These machines allow quilters to have their pieces finished without going through the time-consuming process associated with normal machine quilting or hand quilting.Sewers can now take their finished quilt tops to professional longarm quilting businesses and pay a small fee to have their quilt produced by a long-arm quilter. This has also helped to create a surge in the quilting business and an overall increase in interest in quilting as an art form
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