Originally Posted by maggiebooboo
I did use a pantograph and I have a Gammill. That was the easy part.
What exactly is a pantograph? Is it made of paper or hard plastic?
First off, nicely done Jackie. I know the quilt in three days is an achievement. And yours came out much better'n mine.
A pantograph is a simple machine made of four 'sticks'. The four sticks are assembled at the ends so the whole thing is a movable parallelogram. You put a a stylus on one corner, anchor another corner to something solid, and a third corner drives another pencil, marker or in this case, a quilting machine.
Place a pattern you want to quilt under the stylus, thread the machine and simply trace the pattern with the stylus. The machine follows along, quilting the pattern on the paper.
tim the engineer in san jose