Video tutorial: pantograph quilting

August 4, 2020
If you can trace, you can quilt using a longarm. In this video, APQS Education Director Dawn Cavanaugh shows you how easy it is to complete a quilt using a paper pantograph and shares tricks to get your quilts finished in record time by quilting from edge to edge.
Here’s what is covered in the video:
  • What pantographs were like back when longarms were making their debut in the quilting world.
  • What makes a “good” pantograph.
  • How to choose a good pantograph design for your particular quilt.
  • How to execute a pantograph.

Happy quilting!

Dawn Cavanaugh
Dawn Cavanaugh
Dawn Cavanaugh is the Education Director at APQS.
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