Don't worry about the older videos -- they are all really valuable! In fact, I have gone back to watch all your older videos and find them very instructive -- thanks!
No disrespect meant, but my cat loves watching your videos. I'm waiting for the day I come home and she's made a quilt watching one of your videos. Many thanks for the videos. Jan and Fudge from England.
My cat (male) loves certain RUclipsrs too. It's weird how he meows and looks at the monitor when I am watching a YT video....He often sits right beside me watching. (he's sleeping right now though). Love it.
@@clumsycolours1677 I'm trying to imagine the fabric discussions, decision making process, and if it would depend on if the pup is a doberman, poodle or a Heinz's 57! Your comment gave me a huge chuckle...thanks 😆😂😃
@@MeanaBeana391 Hehehe, my little doggo is a Miniature Pinscher. I think she'd be interested in wools or knit fabrics because she really likes blankets😂😂😂😂
My husband was very interested in the workings of your long arm machine. thank you for sharing the process and possibilities. You and Matt are gifted in sharing joy and encouragement. Thank you for all the work and sharing. Blessings to you all.
@@jordanfabrics8380 I think that's part of what attracted me to this hobby, and especially to the machines you use in your videos. I've enjoyed operating machines since I was a kid. I was the kid in school who always volunteered to be the projectionist when a film was shown in class. A few decades ago I worked for a while as a shop helper in a machine shop where I got to operate a few very large machines. Towards the end of last century I got my foot in the door in mainframe operations. I worked as an IBM mainframe operator until a few years ago when we migrated to a smaller platform. During that time I worked in a computer room surrounded by tape drives, impact printers, and a high speed laser printer or two. I loved it. Now I work in an office administering the smaller IBM system we migrated to. So it's time to surround myself with machines at home.
I used to think that long arm machines were complicated ... until your video! It actually looks fun! You are an amazing teacher! Your camera person is great too!
Donna - you have such an easy style of explaining. I really love your generous videos. I'm in the UK - but I would love one day to come and visit! Thank you for unravelling the mystery of Long Arm Quilting! Love, Kate xxx
@Kate so would I - really love Donna and her work. I am a teacher myself and in some ways Donna's and my kind of explaining is similar. I desperately hope that in a not too far future when mankind learned to cope with that new virus I have the chance to visit (and shop) . To be honest I am saving for that flight and traveling. Unfortunately the quilt show in Birmingham/UK was cancelled otherwise I would have been there.
I have never quilted, but during lockdown I’ve become addicted to watching your videos. As a computer nerd, I’m especially fascinated by your long arm. Thank you for showing it in depth. Your videos are the best. I’ve tried to watch other quilting videos but get annoyed when they don’t do it the way you do.
Yes, please! I would like to see a new video on the Tea Time Quilt. I just love you guys, thanks for taking time to make these videos for everyone at no charge. Folks like you make the world a better place - one stitch & one friend at a time. Keep it up!
Great video as usual. In my dream world, James does the filming for every one of the makers I follow on RUclips. He's just outstandingly good at it - following every move, illustrating every point made, showing every stitch and cut. Superb.
Your straightforward, no-dithering presentation style is one of the best on YT. Yes, please update Tea Time if you've a mind to. A Dick Francis mystery quilt sounds intriguing. Thank you for explaining the longarm process in detail. You and Matt and your team are the best!
So interesting thank you! Your camera person I could just hug! Gets right in there shows us everything! The close up of pinning ,rolling the quilt,the thread shots not just on this tutorial but on your other ones also. Thank you all!
This tutorial was quite informative even for someone who doesn’t own a long arm machine. I’d love to see a remake tutorial for the Tea Time quilt. Thanks for always being so very accommodating. I’ve learned so much from your tutorials. Thanks for all you do to help us become better quilters, and your very generous giveaways. Happy Quilting!
My mother has a Gammill long arm, sewing machine. Since she purchased it new, we have had a process that has worked for us both she and I would make a quilt top those she made more than me, then she would quote them on the quilter, and I would put the binding on, and do the hand sewing. But in the past two years, my mother has had Covid, several strokes, and MRSA bacteremia which is taken a very independent woman, to someone who needs constant help in the location of a nursing and rehab facility. She had made five queen size toppers with plans to make all five of her children a quilt for Christmas. We brought her home thinking that maybe she could remember the steps of putting on setting up and sewing a quilt but she could not. Thankfully my brother found your website and I’ve been able to fill in all the gaps. Now I just have five quilts to sew before Christmas which I’m guessing will be four because I can wait on the one I’m doing for myself to after the holidays. Thank you for the speed and the thoroughness and what you cover this process. Thank you so much.
Thanks Donna! I was really curious about how you do the actual quilting. You are such a great teacher and make it look so easy! I really enjoy watching your videos
Love love love the way you explain everything! My dream was to have a machine like that but now I’m too old. But my joy comes from watching your videos. Your smile is pleasing and your voice is reassuring. Just wish I were younger. 🌷 Thank you so much for sharing yourself and your wonderful quilting talent with us.
Donna, I love this video! You explained every detail very well, so that we can understand this process which has always been quite a mystery to so many of us. Thank you for dedicating time every week, to making videos to help us learn, and for generously sharing your patterns with us. Lots of gratitude, from Australia
A new tutorial for the tea time quilt would be great. Thank you for the videos and your style of teaching. You are easy to follow and I appreciate that.
Thank you, Donna for all of your videos. This one especially caught my eye because I have been blessed to be able to purchase my own used Longarm this week. I am so excited to have watched your video! as always you have a true gift in the way you explain steps to do patch work on your quilts and to use the long arm. You have given me courage to try new things! Hoping to build a long arm business once I become proficient. With gratitude, Sandra
As someone who has math anxiety, lol, this is brilliant! Having the computer do all the math is what computers were invented for. This was very interesting! Because of the cost this is probably outside my wheelhouse, but that doesn’t stop me from appreciating it! And I would love a remake video! I have watched the diamonds squared video multiple times while I am making my grandbaby that pattern. I personally think that if you did multiples of popular quilting patterns they would still be popular. Trying to envision your fabric choices while your putting the quilt together (especially if using plaid or stripes) is daunting. I have taken screenshots of when you laid out the quilt for reference as well as when you laid out the block. I know you have the free pattern, but it is very much easier for me to have a video walk through along with the pattern. The Mariposa quilt pattern from south wind designs was one I almost bought from you guys, unfortunately it sold out while I was dithering. It was butterflies and windmills, but what stopped me from getting it was the cathedral window type way you have to make the block as well as the fool the eye trick when you placed the blocks with the butterflies direction. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to successfully do it with my current quilting skill. So please, please never think that your videos don’t make a huge impact on your audience. You are an awesome educator!!
Kathleen, I too am unable to purchase a longarm because of the cost and size. There is a quilt shop about an hour away from me that rents time on their machines so you can do your own quilting. Two weeks ago I took a 6 hour class that they require before renting time. I am now saving my egg money to start renting time. Donna's video was a great refresher. Maybe there is a quilt shop in your area that does the same. Good luck to you.
I've been watching your videos for about two years now - and I want to thank you so much for all that you all do. I have three go to channels for quilting - you, Angela Walters, and Jenny Doan. You all never fail to give me the confidence and artistic push to keep on piecing and quilting! Thanks!
Thank you Donna. This video will make my life so much easier, because many of my clients watch your videos. Now they will be far more likely to bring me backings with their tops that actually are big enough, square enough, and flat enough to make it easier for me to quilt. Although they are already dedicated to quilting, it’s so nice that you’ve let them see that “quilting by check“ has labor and experience behind it. I have two Gammill longarm machines, a Statler, and a free motion Vision. I absolutely love quilting on my longarms (autocorrect can be hilarious-it put in “lawn worms” instead of “longarms”). Again, thanks.
How interesting. The long arm quilting machine is quite an invention. Donna you are so great with detailed explanations with your quilt making. I'm brand new to quilting and have learned so much watching your videos. Thank you!
Donna, it is so relaxing, watching and learning how to make quilts. Your style of teaching and explaining is so pleasant! I loved watching this video on how your long arm works. Many nights I fall asleep listening to the sound it makes. So relaxing! Matt, your son, and you are a great trio! Your son's videos are the best! I've watched many videos on other sites, and he's become an expert!! Thanks from Texas!!
Donna I absolutely love your tutorials, and I refer to them often when I am making one of the patterns you have designed or one that you have showcased. This was exactly what I was looking for you to do... I love watching the long arm create a pattern on one of your amazing quilts. When I finally get a chance to visit your retail store, I'll have my fingers crossed that it is a day you are quilting a quilt. I would love to see a remake of the Tea Time quilt. Thank you for being you. Have a great day! Happy Quilting to you too!!!!
I have a sit down mid - arm and I fold my backing, batting and top the same way. I have a pair of straight pins, in a plus sign, taped in the center of the table. Then I line the folded backing up with those pins when I lay the backing on the table. I gently unfold it and clamp it to the table with hand clamps, like the ones you use to tension the sides of your backing. Then I follow the same procedure with the batting and the top. I watch most of your videos, many times over. Even though I machine quilt my quilts using a different machine, your videos are still an inspiration for me. Thanks for all the work you, your son and Matt do.
Hi Donna! I'm Brazilian, from the South of Brazil, I understand your language a little, but since I watched the first video I haven't stopped! I learned a lot from you and recently I made a beautiful cooking apron through your tutorial and today you have fulfilled my dream of knowing how to use a long arm sewing machine! Your teaching is fantastic! Thank you!
This is the best video to me on how to long the quilt on the quilting frame. Love how your stacked all 3 layers and pinned them in the middle, that is going to help me so much!!! Love watching all your videos
Will love to see a remake of the tea time tutorial also the charming stars quilt. Here in the Caribbean we don't have that type of machine so it was fascinating to look at. Love the video, thank you for showing how it works.🇹🇹💕
@@LHOP-KJV omg yes always loved it my grandmother did alot of patchwork but now its quilting, and it's hard to get the tools here and I improvise in the tool and use sheeting materials for the cuts. Let's keep in contact love talking about quilting and Donna makes it enjoyable. 😍😊
@@rocks160 I understand about sheeting. It was very hard to find 100% cotton of any kind. I used to shop at Yufe's on Cipero Street. I wasn't sure of any other place since I didn't know the other fabric shops.
Just found this video on how your long arm quilting machine works. It was amazing and fun to watch. Thank you for taking the time to put this together!
Now I know why I love my long-armer, Marsha Sachs. Thank you. You never fail to impress me with your knowledge. You have such a color sense too. I've learned a lot from your tutorials, thanks!
Thank you so much! I work with a couple of different longarmers and this helps in my quilt and backing prep for them. They do usually request 4”-6” all around additional for the backing however. Longarm quilters have made it possible for me to actually FINISH my quilts and DONE is such a beautiful word!! Your tutorials have helped me improve my technique for a better finish. Thank you from Florida
Please consider doing the 'Tea Time Quilt'. I really enjoy all of your videos. I just finished the "Almost A Lone Star' quilt and have started working on the "Harvest" quilt. The videos are very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you I would love to have a long arm quilting machine one day! I would also love to see a remake of Tea Time in Bali. I enjoy each of your videos and have learned so much from you. Thanks again!
I have seen these at quilt shows ~ but never actually seen one working ~ thank you for demonstrations of this very interesting machine ~ much appreciated!
Hey Donna! I am so thrilled you did this tutorial on this longarm. I have had an Avante Longarm for 3 years! and never used it!! I have felt so intimidated to use it. You make it look so easy. It is crazy that I still take my quilts to someone else to quilt when I can do it myself! You have given me confidence that I can do it!! I wish we could be best friends and you come to my house and quilt with me. lol Thanks again
I completely understand! I too was intimidated by the machine when I first got it! I wrote down all the steps to load and quilt a quilt and referred to them for about the first 50 quilts! Once I relaxed and trusted myself and the machine the process became a lot easier.
Thankyou so much Donna. What a great insight into the mystery of long arm quilting. It certainly highlighted why it is so important to have larger backing and batting. I really enjoy your tutorials. You are inspiring to watch.
Absolutely fascinating, thank you so much for taking the time to go through all the steps to quilt on your longarm! I would love to see an updated video of the beautiful Tea Time in Bali quilt.
You are the first person I have seen demonstrating the steps to use a long arm quilting machine. Mostly I see people “sending it off” to someone else. Thank you for showing us the details and decisions we would need to make to have a professional handle it for us.
Once again Donna, you and son have made a splendid tutorial! No, I don't intend on purchasing a LAQ machine, but I have gotten a new found appreciation for my wonderful LAQuilter who does a magnificent job on everything I send her! I now fully understand the nature of the work which step-by-step, is a methodical, understandable process. But like all things, the more practice you have, the more skilled you become. Like the piecing we pride ourselves on, the LAQ machine creates its own magic and if perfect (or close to), creates a special harmony with the pieced work. I always tell my LAQuilter, each quilt created from start to finish is like singing a pleasing duet! Thanks Donna and Jordan Fabrics Family!
Hi Donna, I didn't realize how much of a job, or should I say joy it is to use your long arm quilter, but I really wish I had one for myself. Thank you for this very informative video, you answered all the questions I may of had, and might I add, you do a wonderful job of quilting. All your quilts are so amazing and beautiful, full of color, just simply gorgeous. Yes I would like to see the video of you remaking this quilt. Tks
Donna, looks like you’re reefing in the sails on a yacht. 😂 I don’t even want to know how much it cost...used even. 🙄 So nice, your taking the time to walk us through the process, can now appreciate the cost of sending our babies to a longarm quilter. Yes, please make a tutorial for this quilt. Thanks.
Gone almost are the days in our hurry up world of the true hand sewn quilt, the tying and managing all the bulky layers to keep straight. Seems like every little girl wants to learn to sew, to create something from fabric, to tie knots to make it into a "Thing". Once learned it remains in memory waiting for when we find it was so satisfying and brought an inner peace to our busy world. . Today's Longarm machines only adds to the joy of finishing a job that used to take months and sometimes years to complete., In just a few days. So you can crank out many, 12 a year, more. For me, I now own 2 Longarms, and have the ability to Bless others with the Gifts of my creations, way way sooner. Your tutorial was so well done and so appreciated even for me, who had to learn it the hard way on my own, you are a Blessing.. Thank you for helping the little girl in me, who at 80 still finds that inner peace sewing creates
That is a fantastic machine and it does a great job of putting the quilt together and it would be nice if we all could afford to have one, but those like myself just have the average home sewing machine to use and I will have to try to remember how my grandmother put her's together many years ago. I have the pieces she cut out and sewed together into squares and I need to sew them together and continue that until I have a quilt put together and I have to order some more batting so it can be put on and then make the back of the quilt and then assemble the entire quilt together as one. Your videos have helped me so much and so have others I have viewed and I thank you so much for the help.
Really enjoyed the video Donna, I didn’t realize how much goes into quilting on a long arm. I’m new to quilting and your videos have helped me so much. I look forward to your email every day to see what’s new. Would love to see a new video of the pattern for this quilt .
I am 68 years old and remember going with my grandmother to a church quilting group. We still have quilts and other handmade things that are amazing after all these decades.❤
Thanks so much for this wonderful demo of your long arm machine (she's obviously smart, hard working and a beauty, too)! I'd love to see the Tea Time in Bali (or anywhere else in the world!) remake if you get a chance.
Thank you Donna, you have once again taken the fear out of the complex aspects of quilting. After watching your video I am confident that when I get ready to own a long arm machine, I could actually learn how thanks to your instruction. I would love a video on that quilt. It’s beautiful.
Wow! I knew how it worked but never realized THE WORK that went into getting it set up. Thank you, Donna. I no longer feel like I’m cheating when I send my quilts out to the spa.
I've always wondered how those long-arm machines work and now I know, so many thanks for showing how to do it. Also, I would love to see you do an updated video for this quilt - thanks Donna and all the Jordan family, for creating such enjoyable video's to watch :)
I enjoyed this tutorial. I always wondered how a Longarm machine worked. I love using jelly rolls. and would love to see you make a tutorial of Tea Time in Bali. Thank you for sharing.
Donna this was amazing. My Bernina dealer has a huge long arm and I always wanted to know how it worked. Since watching you fantastic tutorial video's I will make a king size quilt for the first time. After I make a maple leaf runner and the 2 friendship runners. Thank you for doing a wonderful job reaching . I just love seeing how happy you are when you are quilting, so am I, God Bless.
This was so interesting and informative. I have been trying to learn long arm operation since I started working with one that was donated to our church. Most of the ladies I sew with are elderly, so much has fallen on me to set up and complete. Ours is a Gammill Classic, very old, and of course there is no computer nor a stitch regulator. I saw that you did not pin your top on. I have no basting stitch, so I do pin it first. Our frame also has a third leader for the bottom of the top layer of the quilt. I noticed yours was free floating. I have seen some use clamps on the bar in front, but have not ever seen it free floating. I found this very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to do this. I would be interested in the video of the quilt you mentioned. I enjoy your clear directions and suggestions. I started hand quilting at our church about 3 years ago. Last year I learned how to put a quilt on a wood frame for hand quilting and basically had to figure out the marking as people were leaving our circle due to age and health. Now I am giving this old long arm a try. Thank goodness for RUclips! That is how I am learning to piece, machine quilt, etc. Channels like yours are helping me so much!
If I had teachers as good as you do as a quilt tutor, I’d have been a better student! I’m just a fledgling quilter but you make me so excited to do more!
I am just fascinated by the whole quilt process. The piecing is my favorite and second would be the long arm. Im just a beginner and i just love your videos. Thanks so much for what you and your family business do for the quilters out here
Wow this is the CnC of quilting. My husband is a electric engineer and has worked for years repairing the CNC machines used by huge companies to make metal parts plastic parts and egg sorting and cleaning. This is one to make something beautiful and useful.
First, i loved the still of you, the picture on yt, it made me laugh. And then followed that fantastic show about the longarm. Then i realised the work of the camera operator, also fantastic. Thank you, from Amsterdam, NL.
Another awesome video, Donna. Thank you SO MUCH for filming this. I have *always* been curious as to how those long-arm machines work, from start to finish. You make it look easy, but I know I'd have a huge learning curve before I became as proficient as you are. And isn't that the way of any new skill? Beautiful colours in that quilt. Perfect choice of quilting pattern design. Thanks for recording, editing and posting on RUclips!!! ~Diana K. (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)
Thanks so much ,bought the quilting machine but it came with no manual book, Though mine doesn't have a computer, but with these tutorials ,I believe will help me alot.
I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated this video Donna! I don’t own a long arm (yet!), but now I believe I could work one. You broke it down into easy to understand steps! Thanks!
Wow! Donna I’m amazed at the long arm machine. It’s is a wonderment, thank you so much for your step by step explanation of the process. Guess I have to save my pennies, I would love it 😍!!
Donna, you're awesome. I may never have a longarm like yours, but I picked up a few tips that will help make my quilt sandwiches for sit-down quilting. You do such a lovely job with your Gammill! Some Day!
Donna, I watch all your videos. I am a new quilter. I have only made one quilt top from one of your videos. Have been to your shop. Everyone was so helpful. Hope to come back soon. Thank you for helping me to learn how to guilt.
I really love your videos, and the way you explain things. I'm not that experienced a quilter, but I understand everything in your tutorials. You are and excellent and generous teacher, and I think you are the best. Thank you so much.
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People want trips, mansions, sports cars, fancy clothes and jewelry....I just want one of these ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😍
Goodness gracious me! Am I alone in this, but... I could watch this machine all day long! It’s just fascinating! ❣️🌹
Almost hypnotizing, in fact!
Where's it going to go next???
Don't worry about the older videos -- they are all really valuable! In fact, I have gone back to watch all your older videos and find them very instructive -- thanks!
My goodness! I didn't even know this kind of monster machines existed! I fell of my couch! WOW! ♥️♥️♥️
No disrespect meant, but my cat loves watching your videos. I'm waiting for the day I come home and she's made a quilt watching one of your videos. Many thanks for the videos. Jan and Fudge from England.
My cat (male) loves certain RUclipsrs too. It's weird how he meows and looks at the monitor when I am watching a YT video....He often sits right beside me watching. (he's sleeping right now though).
Love it.
Oh my gosh!!! Please tell me your cat can sew!!! I'd love it if my dogs could sew, I'd have someone to buy fabric with😂😂😂
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@@clumsycolours1677 I'm trying to imagine the fabric discussions, decision making process, and if it would depend on if the pup is a doberman, poodle or a Heinz's 57! Your comment gave me a huge chuckle...thanks 😆😂😃
@@MeanaBeana391 Hehehe, my little doggo is a Miniature Pinscher. I think she'd be interested in wools or knit fabrics because she really likes blankets😂😂😂😂
My husband was very interested in the workings of your long arm machine.
thank you for sharing the process and possibilities. You and Matt are gifted in sharing joy and encouragement. Thank you for all the work and sharing. Blessings to you all.
When you talk about your quilting machine you do it with the excitement and enthusiasm of a child on Christmas morning!
The machines are really fun to use!
I agree!!!
One thing I love about Donna and Matt too is how much joy they take in what they do. Donna sparkled as she showed us her machine!
@@jordanfabrics8380 I think that's part of what attracted me to this hobby, and especially to the machines you use in your videos. I've enjoyed operating machines since I was a kid. I was the kid in school who always volunteered to be the projectionist when a film was shown in class. A few decades ago I worked for a while as a shop helper in a machine shop where I got to operate a few very large machines. Towards the end of last century I got my foot in the door in mainframe operations. I worked as an IBM mainframe operator until a few years ago when we migrated to a smaller platform. During that time I worked in a computer room surrounded by tape drives, impact printers, and a high speed laser printer or two. I loved it. Now I work in an office administering the smaller IBM system we migrated to. So it's time to surround myself with machines at home.
I used to think that long arm machines were complicated ... until your video! It actually looks fun! You are an amazing teacher!
Your camera person is great too!
Donna - you have such an easy style of explaining. I really love your generous videos. I'm in the UK - but I would love one day to come and visit! Thank you for unravelling the mystery of Long Arm Quilting! Love, Kate xxx
Hi Kate. I watch you too. I hope you're feeling better.
I've been there and Donna and Matt are EXACTLY as they portray on RUclips! I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL, TOO❣
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Your videos make me happy too, Kate!
@Kate so would I - really love Donna and her work. I am a teacher myself and in some ways Donna's and my kind of explaining is similar.
I desperately hope that in a not too far future when mankind learned to cope with that new virus I have the chance to visit (and shop) . To be honest I am saving for that flight and traveling.
Unfortunately the quilt show in Birmingham/UK was cancelled otherwise I would have been there.
I have never quilted, but during lockdown I’ve become addicted to watching your videos. As a computer nerd, I’m especially fascinated by your long arm. Thank you for showing it in depth. Your videos are the best. I’ve tried to watch other quilting videos but get annoyed when they don’t do it the way you do.
I have an even greater respect for my quilter! Love you Jill!
I love a quilt that has a lot of purple!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜. Yes, please make another video.
Would love to see a new video of that quilt top please Donna. You have no idea how much these tutorials have helped me. Thank you 🙂
Yes, please! I would like to see a new video on the Tea Time Quilt. I just love you guys, thanks for taking time to make these videos for everyone at no charge. Folks like you make the world a better place - one stitch & one friend at a time. Keep it up!
Great video as usual. In my dream world, James does the filming for every one of the makers I follow on RUclips. He's just outstandingly good at it - following every move, illustrating every point made, showing every stitch and cut. Superb.
I know he is my son and I am perhaps prejudiced, but he really is a genius!
I feel like I could watch that machine work all day! But it does also take a bit of set up from you as well. Thanks!
Your straightforward, no-dithering presentation style is one of the best on YT. Yes, please update Tea Time if you've a mind to. A Dick Francis mystery quilt sounds intriguing. Thank you for explaining the longarm process in detail. You and Matt and your team are the best!
Dithering! Yes, too many videos go on and on about nothing. I just want them short and sweet, no dithering around!
Danke für die sehr gute Erklärung 👍❤️🌹👵🏻
So interesting thank you! Your camera person I could just hug! Gets right in there shows us everything! The close up of pinning ,rolling the quilt,the thread shots not just on this tutorial but on your other ones also. Thank you all!
I agree so good!
Yes please to the Bali video. That is such a pretty quilt.
This tutorial was quite informative even for someone who doesn’t own a long arm machine. I’d love to see a remake tutorial for the Tea Time quilt. Thanks for always being so very accommodating. I’ve learned so much from your tutorials. Thanks for all you do to help us become better quilters, and your very generous giveaways. Happy Quilting!
I know this is a 2 yr old video, but I still wanted to say....Thank you for showing this, I enjoyed watching how this is done!!
Love to see the new version "Tea Time qQuilt". I always have a better day when I begin watching your tutorials!
My mother has a Gammill long arm, sewing machine. Since she purchased it new, we have had a process that has worked for us both she and I would make a quilt top those she made more than me, then she would quote them on the quilter, and I would put the binding on, and do the hand sewing. But in the past two years, my mother has had Covid, several strokes, and MRSA bacteremia which is taken a very independent woman, to someone who needs constant help in the location of a nursing and rehab facility. She had made five queen size toppers with plans to make all five of her children a quilt for Christmas. We brought her home thinking that maybe she could remember the steps of putting on setting up and sewing a quilt but she could not. Thankfully my brother found your website and I’ve been able to fill in all the gaps. Now I just have five quilts to sew before Christmas which I’m guessing will be four because I can wait on the one I’m doing for myself to after the holidays. Thank you for the speed and the thoroughness and what you cover this process. Thank you so much.
Your mother is very fortunate to have you and your brother to help her out and I am glad you will be able to finish the quilts!
After seeing this, now I really want a long arm machine. Time to start saving... (Thank you for the tutorial.)
Right I totally want one for myself to
I've wanted one for so long...one day
Yeah long arms loook soooooo cool! I just don’t have room!
Thanks Donna! I was really curious about how you do the actual quilting. You are such a great teacher and make it look so easy! I really enjoy watching your videos
I was thinking the same. I would love to do this as a job.
Donna, your teaching style is the absolute best! Thank you for explaining things in terms easier to comprehend! And thanks for all you do!
Oh my word that long arm is like a dream come true! Thank you for the tutorial.
Love love love the way you explain everything! My dream was to have a machine like that but now I’m too old. But my joy comes from watching your videos. Your smile is pleasing and your voice is reassuring. Just wish I were younger. 🌷 Thank you so much for sharing yourself and your wonderful quilting talent with us.
Donna, I love this video!
You explained every detail very well, so that we can understand this process which has always been quite a mystery to so many of us.
Thank you for dedicating time every week, to making videos to help us learn, and for generously sharing your patterns with us.
Lots of gratitude, from Australia
Fantastic tutorial Donna. Cheers from Australia
A new tutorial for the tea time quilt would be great. Thank you for the videos and your style of teaching. You are easy to follow and I appreciate that.
Thank you, Donna for all of your videos. This one especially caught my eye because I have been blessed to be able to purchase my own used Longarm this week. I am so excited to have watched your video! as always you have a true gift in the way you explain steps to do patch work on your quilts and to use the long arm. You have given me courage to try new things! Hoping to build a long arm business once I become proficient. With gratitude, Sandra
Tea time in Bali ..yes please. Love your tutorials, love from Alberta Canada 🇨🇦
As someone who has math anxiety, lol, this is brilliant! Having the computer do all the math is what computers were invented for. This was very interesting! Because of the cost this is probably outside my wheelhouse, but that doesn’t stop me from appreciating it! And I would love a remake video! I have watched the diamonds squared video multiple times while I am making my grandbaby that pattern. I personally think that if you did multiples of popular quilting patterns they would still be popular. Trying to envision your fabric choices while your putting the quilt together (especially if using plaid or stripes) is daunting. I have taken screenshots of when you laid out the quilt for reference as well as when you laid out the block. I know you have the free pattern, but it is very much easier for me to have a video walk through along with the pattern. The Mariposa quilt pattern from south wind designs was one I almost bought from you guys, unfortunately it sold out while I was dithering. It was butterflies and windmills, but what stopped me from getting it was the cathedral window type way you have to make the block as well as the fool the eye trick when you placed the blocks with the butterflies direction. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to successfully do it with my current quilting skill. So please, please never think that your videos don’t make a huge impact on your audience. You are an awesome educator!!
Yes she an awesome teacher. Have to love her for her patience in sharing her knowledge of quilting.
Kathleen, I too am unable to purchase a longarm because of the cost and size. There is a quilt shop about an hour away from me that rents time on their machines so you can do your own quilting. Two weeks ago I took a 6 hour class that they require before renting time. I am now saving my egg money to start renting time. Donna's video was a great refresher. Maybe there is a quilt shop in your area that does the same. Good luck to you.
WELL SAID!!! I watch every episode several times. They're also playing in the background while I sew.
Yes! Please do another tea time quilt tutorial!
I've been watching your videos for about two years now - and I want to thank you so much for all that you all do. I have three go to channels for quilting - you, Angela Walters, and Jenny Doan. You all never fail to give me the confidence and artistic push to keep on piecing and quilting! Thanks!
Thank you Donna. This video will make my life so much easier, because many of my clients watch your videos. Now they will be far more likely to bring me backings with their tops that actually are big enough, square enough, and flat enough to make it easier for me to quilt. Although they are already dedicated to quilting, it’s so nice that you’ve let them see that “quilting by check“ has labor and experience behind it. I have two Gammill longarm machines, a Statler, and a free motion Vision. I absolutely love quilting on my longarms (autocorrect can be hilarious-it put in “lawn worms” instead of “longarms”). Again, thanks.
This was beautifully filmed as well. Thank you for the hard work you put into your videos!
How interesting. The long arm quilting machine is quite an invention. Donna you are so great with detailed explanations with your quilt making. I'm brand new to quilting and have learned so much watching your videos. Thank you!
Wow I didn't realize that was such a labor intensive project. Thank you!♡
Donna, it is so relaxing, watching and learning how to make quilts. Your style of teaching and explaining is so pleasant! I loved watching this video on how your long arm works. Many nights I fall asleep listening to the sound it makes. So relaxing! Matt, your son, and you are a great trio! Your son's videos are the best! I've watched many videos on other sites, and he's become an expert!! Thanks from Texas!!
Donna I absolutely love your tutorials, and I refer to them often when I am making one of the patterns you have designed or one that you have showcased. This was exactly what I was looking for you to do... I love watching the long arm create a pattern on one of your amazing quilts. When I finally get a chance to visit your retail store, I'll have my fingers crossed that it is a day you are quilting a quilt. I would love to see a remake of the Tea Time quilt. Thank you for being you. Have a great day! Happy Quilting to you too!!!!
I have a sit down mid - arm and I fold my backing, batting and top the same way. I have a pair of straight pins, in a plus sign, taped in the center of the table. Then I line the folded backing up with those pins when I lay the backing on the table. I gently unfold it and clamp it to the table with hand clamps, like the ones you use to tension the sides of your backing. Then I follow the same procedure with the batting and the top. I watch most of your videos, many times over. Even though I machine quilt my quilts using a different machine, your videos are still an inspiration for me. Thanks for all the work you, your son and Matt do.
Hi Donna!
I'm Brazilian, from the South of Brazil, I understand your language a little, but since I watched the first video I haven't stopped! I learned a lot from you and recently I made a beautiful
cooking apron through your tutorial and today you have fulfilled my dream of knowing how to use a long arm sewing machine! Your teaching is fantastic! Thank you!
I think that machine is hypnotic, I could watch it all day 😊
One day, God willing, I'll get a quilting machine.
Love your hair!
This is the best video to me on how to long the quilt on the quilting frame. Love how your stacked all 3 layers and pinned them in the middle, that is going to help me so much!!!
Love watching all your videos
Will love to see a remake of the tea time tutorial also the charming stars quilt. Here in the Caribbean we don't have that type of machine so it was fascinating to look at. Love the video, thank you for showing how it works.🇹🇹💕
Hi, Deborah! My husband and I lived in Sando 2016-2017. It's great to see a Trini interested in quilting; none of my friends were at that time.
@@LHOP-KJV omg yes always loved it my grandmother did alot of patchwork but now its quilting, and it's hard to get the tools here and I improvise in the tool and use sheeting materials for the cuts. Let's keep in contact love talking about quilting and Donna makes it enjoyable. 😍😊
@@rocks160 I understand about sheeting. It was very hard to find 100% cotton of any kind. I used to shop at Yufe's on Cipero Street. I wasn't sure of any other place since I didn't know the other fabric shops.
@@LHOP-KJV I also go to yufes in Port of Spain also Jimmy Aboud, but I am thinking of bringing in some of my fabrics.
Just found this video on how your long arm quilting machine works. It was amazing and fun to watch. Thank you for taking the time to put this together!
You've taken the mystery out of long arm quilting. Thank you so much.
Now I know why I love my long-armer, Marsha Sachs.
Thank you. You never fail to impress me with your knowledge. You have such a color sense too. I've learned a lot from your tutorials, thanks!
Thank you so much! I work with a couple of different longarmers and this helps in my quilt and backing prep for them. They do usually request 4”-6” all around additional for the backing however. Longarm quilters have made it possible for me to actually FINISH my quilts and DONE is such a beautiful word!!
Your tutorials have helped me improve my technique for a better finish. Thank you from Florida
Please consider doing the 'Tea Time Quilt'. I really enjoy all of your videos. I just finished the "Almost A Lone Star' quilt and have started working on the "Harvest" quilt. The videos are very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you I would love to have a long arm quilting machine one day! I would also love to see a remake of Tea Time in Bali. I enjoy each of your videos and have learned so much from you. Thanks again!
I have seen these at quilt shows ~ but never actually seen one working ~ thank you for demonstrations of this very interesting machine ~ much appreciated!
Yes! I would love a new video on this quilt.
Hey Donna! I am so thrilled you did this tutorial on this longarm. I have had an Avante Longarm for 3 years! and never used it!! I have felt so intimidated to use it. You make it look so easy. It is crazy that I still take my quilts to someone else to quilt when I can do it myself! You have given me confidence that I can do it!! I wish we could be best friends and you come to my house and quilt with me. lol Thanks again
I completely understand! I too was intimidated by the machine when I first got it! I wrote down all the steps to load and quilt a quilt and referred to them for about the first 50 quilts! Once I relaxed and trusted myself and the machine the process became a lot easier.
Thankyou so much Donna. What a great insight into the mystery of long arm quilting. It certainly highlighted why it is so important to have larger backing and batting.
I really enjoy your tutorials. You are inspiring to watch.
Yes! new videos are always a plus! Donna, I watch your videos almost every day to get new tricks and tips. You are such a joy to watch. Thank you!
Absolutely fascinating, thank you so much for taking the time to go through all the steps to quilt on your longarm! I would love to see an updated video of the beautiful Tea Time in Bali quilt.
You are the first person I have seen demonstrating the steps to use a long arm quilting machine. Mostly I see people “sending it off” to someone else. Thank you for showing us the details and decisions we would need to make to have a professional handle it for us.
This quilt is absolutely gorgeous! Watching the quilting process made me appreciate even more what goes into it! Thanks!
Once again Donna, you and son have made a splendid tutorial! No, I don't intend on purchasing a LAQ machine, but I have gotten a new found appreciation for my wonderful LAQuilter who does a magnificent job on everything I send her! I now fully understand the nature of the work which step-by-step, is a methodical, understandable process. But like all things, the more practice you have, the more skilled you become. Like the piecing we pride ourselves on, the LAQ machine creates its own magic and if perfect (or close to), creates a special harmony with the pieced work. I always tell my LAQuilter, each quilt created from start to finish is like singing a pleasing duet! Thanks Donna and Jordan Fabrics Family!
Hi Donna, I didn't realize how much of a job, or should I say joy it is to use your long arm quilter, but I really wish I had one for myself. Thank you for this very informative video, you answered all the questions I may of had, and might I add, you do a wonderful job of quilting. All your quilts are so amazing and beautiful, full of color, just simply gorgeous. Yes I would like to see the video of you remaking this quilt. Tks
Donna, Om my gosh. I took a long arm class nearby but never really got it 100 %. I watched your video and click ! I got it 200%. Thanks so much.!!!!
Donna, looks like you’re reefing in the sails on a yacht. 😂 I don’t even want to know how much it cost...used even. 🙄 So nice, your taking the time to walk us through the process, can now appreciate the cost of sending our babies to a longarm quilter. Yes, please make a tutorial for this quilt. Thanks.
Gone almost are the days in our hurry up world of the true hand sewn quilt, the tying and managing all the bulky layers to keep straight. Seems like every little girl wants to learn to sew, to create something from fabric, to tie knots to make it into a "Thing". Once learned it remains in memory waiting for when we find it was so satisfying and brought an inner peace to our busy world. .
Today's Longarm machines only adds to the joy of finishing a job that used to take months and sometimes years to complete., In just a few days. So you can crank out many, 12 a year, more.
For me, I now own 2 Longarms, and have the ability to Bless others with the Gifts of my creations, way way sooner.
Your tutorial was so well done and so appreciated even for me, who had to learn it the hard way on my own, you are a Blessing.. Thank you for helping the little girl in me, who at 80 still finds that inner peace sewing creates
Wow, there is so much more involved than I ever imagined! Thank you for such an informative look at a long arm machine. Thanks for all you do!
That is a fantastic machine and it does a great job of putting the quilt together and it would be nice if we all could afford to have one, but those like myself just have the average home sewing machine to use and I will have to try to remember how my grandmother put her's together many years ago. I have the pieces she cut out and sewed together into squares and I need to sew them together and continue that until I have a quilt put together and I have to order some more batting so it can be put on and then make the back of the quilt and then assemble the entire quilt together as one. Your videos have helped me so much and so have others I have viewed and I thank you so much for the help.
Really enjoyed the video Donna, I didn’t realize how much goes into quilting on a long arm. I’m new to quilting and your videos have helped me so much. I look forward to your email every day to see what’s new. Would love to see a new video of the pattern for this quilt .
I am 68 years old and remember going with my grandmother to a church quilting group.
We still have quilts and other handmade things that are amazing after all these decades.❤
Thanks so much for this wonderful demo of your long arm machine (she's obviously smart, hard working and a beauty, too)! I'd love to see the Tea Time in Bali (or anywhere else in the world!) remake if you get a chance.
Thank you Donna, you have once again taken the fear out of the complex aspects of quilting. After watching your video I am confident that when I get ready to own a long arm machine, I could actually learn how thanks to your instruction. I would love a video on that quilt. It’s beautiful.
Wow! I knew how it worked but never realized THE WORK that went into getting it set up. Thank you, Donna. I no longer feel like I’m cheating when I send my quilts out to the spa.
I've always wondered how those long-arm machines work and now I know, so many thanks for showing how to do it. Also, I would love to see you do an updated video for this quilt - thanks Donna and all the Jordan family, for creating such enjoyable video's to watch :)
I enjoyed this tutorial. I always wondered how a Longarm machine worked. I love using jelly rolls. and would love to see you make a tutorial of Tea Time in Bali. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, please redo the how-to video for this patter. It’s beautiful!
Donna this was amazing. My Bernina dealer has a huge long arm and I always wanted to know how it worked. Since watching you fantastic tutorial video's I will make a king size quilt for the first time. After I make a maple leaf runner and the 2 friendship runners. Thank you for doing a wonderful job reaching . I just love seeing how happy you are when you are quilting, so am I, God Bless.
This was so interesting and informative. I have been trying to learn long arm operation since I started working with one that was donated to our church. Most of the ladies I sew with are elderly, so much has fallen on me to set up and complete. Ours is a Gammill Classic, very old, and of course there is no computer nor a stitch regulator. I saw that you did not pin your top on. I have no basting stitch, so I do pin it first. Our frame also has a third leader for the bottom of the top layer of the quilt. I noticed yours was free floating. I have seen some use clamps on the bar in front, but have not ever seen it free floating. I found this very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to do this. I would be interested in the video of the quilt you mentioned. I enjoy your clear directions and suggestions. I started hand quilting at our church about 3 years ago. Last year I learned how to put a quilt on a wood frame for hand quilting and basically had to figure out the marking as people were leaving our circle due to age and health. Now I am giving this old long arm a try. Thank goodness for RUclips! That is how I am learning to piece, machine quilt, etc. Channels like yours are helping me so much!
If I had teachers as good as you do as a quilt tutor, I’d have been a better student! I’m just a fledgling quilter but you make me so excited to do more!
This is the kind of video I've been wanting to see! I never knew how a quilting machine really worked. Thanks for this, I learned a lot!
Dear Donna and Matt, thank you for another great video, it explains the process so well.
I am just fascinated by the whole quilt process. The piecing is my favorite and second would be the long arm. Im just a beginner and i just love your videos. Thanks so much for what you and your family business do for the quilters out here
Thanks for your hard work it is good job and beautiful colours has been chosen to all the quilt has been made.
Hussain 🇧🇭 Bahrain
I absolutely love your videos! I have learned so much and appreciate all you teach us!
I really try to give the other videos a chance, but I always come back to your videos. I'm new to quilting and I've learned so much from your videos!
Donna, you make everything seem so simple and straightforward! Thank you, this was great!!
Wow this is the CnC of quilting. My husband is a electric engineer and has worked for years repairing the CNC machines used by huge companies to make metal parts plastic parts and egg sorting and cleaning. This is one to make something beautiful and useful.
First, i loved the still of you, the picture on yt, it made me laugh. And then followed that fantastic show about the longarm. Then i realised the work of the camera operator, also fantastic. Thank you, from Amsterdam, NL.
Another awesome video, Donna. Thank you SO MUCH for filming this. I have *always* been curious as to how those long-arm machines work, from start to finish. You make it look easy, but I know I'd have a huge learning curve before I became as proficient as you are. And isn't that the way of any new skill? Beautiful colours in that quilt. Perfect choice of quilting pattern design. Thanks for recording, editing and posting on RUclips!!!
~Diana K. (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)
Love your tutorials! I am a new quilter and the way you explain each step is so helpful! I'm so glad I found you!
Thanks so much ,bought the quilting machine but it came with no manual book,
Though mine doesn't have a computer, but with these tutorials ,I believe will help me alot.
I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated this video Donna! I don’t own a long arm (yet!), but now I believe I could work one. You broke it down into easy to understand steps! Thanks!
This is the best tutorial I have ever seen on how a quilting machine works. Thank you sew much!
Thank you for showing us this important step in quilt making. I love all your videos and you inspire in so many ways!
Wow! Donna I’m amazed at the long arm machine. It’s is a wonderment, thank you so much for your step by step explanation of the process. Guess I have to save my pennies, I would love it 😍!!
I learn so much from your tutorials and love watching them.
Donna, you're awesome. I may never have a longarm like yours, but I picked up a few tips that will help make my quilt sandwiches for sit-down quilting. You do such a lovely job with your Gammill! Some Day!
Thank you, Donna. I was glued to this. Very interesting, even though I do my own quilting on a domestic Janome. Always simple but it works for me.
Donna, I watch all your videos. I am a new quilter. I have only made one quilt top from one of your videos. Have been to your shop. Everyone was so helpful. Hope to come back soon. Thank you for helping me to learn how to guilt.
This was fascinating! I enjoyed every bit of it and learned a great deal along the way. Thank you for your wonderful tutorials.
I really love your videos, and the way you explain things. I'm not that experienced a quilter, but I understand everything in your tutorials. You are and excellent and generous teacher, and I think you are the best. Thank you so much.