Pantographs are continuous line quilting designs that you follow with your longarm machine to create beautiful, consistent patterns across an entire quilt. Placed beneath the frame, these paper patterns are traced with a laser light, allowing quilters to achieve professional, edge-to-edge designs with ease. Handi Quilter offers a wide variety of styles—from classic florals to modern geometrics—these pantographs make it simple to add texture, movement, and personality to any quilt.
A pantograph is a continuous-line quilting design printed on a long sheet of paper. Quilters follow the pattern using a laser or stylus to create edge-to-edge designs on a longarm machine from the back of the longarm machine.
Pantographs are placed on the back table of the longarm frame. The machine quilter traces the printed design, and the machine stitches the pattern across the quilt surface.
Yes. Pantographs are one of the easiest ways for new longarm quilters to achieve smooth, consistent, professional-looking designs without needing advanced free-motion skills.
The size depends on your machine’s throat space and the look you want. Most quilters choose pantographs between 6–12 inches in height based on design density and machine capability.
Pantographs are designed for longarm systems. Domestic machines generally don’t have the frame length or movement range needed for pantograph quilting.