In days gone by, quilting was a laborious and cumbersome process which was attempted on standard domestic and industrial sewing machines. You may have even tried this yourself where you had to struggle with layers of fabric, trying to run them through a stationary machine while endeavouring to follow a pattern from memory. And after many years of perfecting a technique coupled together with personal artistry, the satisfactory end result was only obtained by hours and hours of hard work.

However, technology advances in all fields, and back in 1980, an American company called Gammill decided that there had to be an easier, more efficient and decorative way to machine quilt using a revolutionary idea: Why not move the sewing machine instead of the fabric?



So Gammill set out to develop a large throat sewing machine on tracks which could be operated from both sides, moved in any direction, on a specially designed stand that enabled pantograph patterns to be traced directly onto the fabric -- making it possible to complete a quilt or bedspread in a matter of hours rather than days. But how is the fabric held together and advanced?



Their original two-control hand-guided quilting machine used a series of fabric handling rollers to join the lining, fiberfill, and top fabric over a 12 or 14 foot stand on which the sewing mechanism moved freely. Once the exposed fabric surface was quilted, all three fabric layers were advanced simultaneously to reveal the next area to be quilted. It was that simple.

But Gammill continued to develop the process -- creating new models and sizes for different quilting needs, adding new options, developing features that enabled perfect channel and diagonal quilting, perfect circles, intricate patterns and designs, and more. Perhaps even more important, they continued to seek out and employ the finest mechanical and electrical parts available to ensure a quality and dependability second to none. Because, as you know, all the "bells and whistles" don't mean a thing if your machine isn't running smoothly and making perfect stitches -- no matter what style quilting you want.

At Time Machine Quilting, we use the latest Gammill machine quilter, enabling me to quilt to the perfection you require so that the final product stands out above the outdated push and struggle method of stationary sewing machines.