Getting Started with Longarm Quilting

Are you interested in learning more about longarm quilting? Join us in this great class and learn about quilting with a longarm.

Course Description

Are you interested in learning more about longarm quilting? This great class is a show and tell of all the best features of the Handi Quilter machine lineup. The basics will be covered, including machine and frame maintenance, loading a quilt, setting your tension, and picking the perfect thread to stitch out the perfect design. Questions about everything quilting related – from pantographs to stencils – will all be answered in this great back to basics class.

Topics Include

  • The basics of machine and frame maintenance

  • Tensioning bobbins and longarm quilting machines

  • How to load a quilt onto a frame

  • Quilting pantographs, Groovy boards, and stencils

  • Rulers, basic free motion, and Handi Gadgets

Megan Best

Handi Quilter National Educator

Megan Best has always loved fabrics and made her first quilt while in high school. She continued to foster this love throughout her education, achieving degrees in apparel design and merchandising/textiles. Thousands of quilts later, she still loves to create. Megan’s career in the fabric industry includes experience in fabric stores, retail management, quilt shop ownership and as a professional longarm quilter. She excels in both computerized and free-motion quilting, winning many ribbons at local and national shows. She quilts on both her HQ Fusion® and HQ Avanté®, both with Pro-Stitcher®. Megan’s teaching career includes experience as a college instructor, a quilting teacher for local guilds and retail shops, and an instructor at national and international machine quilting shows. Megan lives in NW Washington on a mini farm (in the making), has two children, and a very supportive husband. Follow her on instagram as bestquilter or visit her website at www.bestquilter.com.