long arm pantographs
 

I need a Baptist Fan pattern that does not backtrack, please and thank you.

Check websites for baptist fan continous line designs. There are several available

here's one http://www.sewthankful.com/Continuou...-Quilting.html

Thanks for the link! My old machine can only do 5" or 6" pantos and sometimes they are kind of hard to find. I may order the Baptist Fan.

Could you use a compass to draw arcs that are the correct block size, then join the ends in a straight line as shown in the link? Might take awhile to get the exact size right, but then it's repeat, repeat, repeat!

I think that would be a hard pattern to execute well by pantograph, so I recommend you buy some pattern (groovy) boards. They are pricey but well worth the price, imho. You can buy traditional Baptist Fans (with backtracking, but it's easy with a pattern board) or Contemporary (no backtracking---looks like the one in the sewthankful link pantograph above). Usually you only need to buy 2 or 3 pattern boards to fit any width quilt. Just hopscotch the first board back and forth from first to last position as needed.

I have always thought that you could draw one copier page width, making sure that you are finishing where you can join the next width of paper to make the pattern continuous. Then make copies of that page. Next, tape them together. That would save having to draw each part and would make it relatively quick. I wonder, has anyone tried the make one design, copy it and then tape it together? Is it more trouble than it is worth?

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Yes, I have done that...if I wanted a panto larger or smaller. I will use my proportional sizer....set copier, make a bunch of copies that size and then "join". It does work.........then at a garage sale I found two rolls of 8" paper......now I just put pattern on plexi L/A table under plastic cover put lite under table and roll out and hand copy to the length I want/ need.