Dawn Thompson threads the needle of her long-arm quilting machine in Davenport, Iowa. Thompson used half-square triangles left over from the making of other quilts for this creation. A completed ...

Ben Reiser shows Ashley Thompson how to use a longarm quilting machine at Fonder Sewing Machine Company.

Bernina of America, the world’s premier manufacturer of home sewing, quilting and embroidery machines for more than 120 years, is pleased to introduce its Bernina Q 20 Longarm quilting machine.

The BERNINA Q 24 Longarm is designed as a frame model machine. Its frame measures 12 feet in length with a 10-foot working area, and is large enough to create a 115-inch quilt.

Whereas quilters once stitched their own quilts by hand or by using a regular sewing machine, many now pay to have that work done by a specialist using a computerized, long-arm quilting machine ...