Thread: FM Question?
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Old 12-29-2009, 01:50 PM
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Most pantographs are made for LA machines to be traced with a laser stylus mounted on the side of the machine. You move the machine to match the panto and you don't even look where you are quilting, your eyes are always on the panto. I really don't know of any way to reproduce one on a DM because you are moving the quilt sandwich not your machine. I have to look where I am quilting. Unless you have one of those special racks that you can mount you DM machine on I don't know if pantos would work for you. You can try having the picture next to you and trying to copy it via FM quilting. Some people are good at that, I have never tried it myself. Most of my FMQ are just designs I "doodle" on to the fabric with my machine. I practice the design for a bit on a practice piece and then go at it on the quilt.
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