Choosing Your Nolting Longarm System

Build the Longarm That's Right for You

Your Longarm.  Your Frame.  

Your Quilting Journey

Choosing a longarm is exciting—and there are choices to make along the way. From the machine and frame to machine color, features, automation and accessories, your Nolting system can be built around your space, your quilting style, and your goals for the future.

Start With You

Before choosing a machine, think about where you want quilting to take you. Are you ready to finish your own quilts? Explore more creative quilting? Quilt more frequently? Or perhaps turn something you love into a business someday?

 

The right longarm isn't simply the one that meets your needs today. It's one that gives you room to grow.

Where Are You Headed On Your Quilting Journey?

Finish My Own Quilts

How many quilts do you have waiting to be quilted?

Expand My Creativity

What quilting techniques do you want to learn?

Quilt More & Faster

Will automation help you finish more quilts?

Build a Quilting Business

Nolting helps you begin your quilting business with workshops and seminars.

THE HEART OF YOUR SYSTEM

Choosing Your Machine

Your longarm machine is the heart of your quilting system, and choosing the right one begins with thinking about how you want to quilt. Consider throat space, stitching features, controls, ease of use, and the level of capability you need today—while also choosing a machine with room to support your skills, creativity, and quilting goals for the future.

 

Every Nolting machine is built with the same commitment to quality, precision, and reliability. The difference isn't which machine is "better"—it's which one best matches your quilting goals, workspace, and future plans.

Raya

The Perfect Beginning

Designed for quilters purchasing their first longarm, the Raya offers an affordable introduction to longarm quilting while providing the quality and reliability that have made Nolting a trusted name for generations.

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Flair

Room to Grow

The Flair is ideal for quilters who want additional workspace and features while maintaining an easy-to-use machine that can comfortably handle everything from personal quilting to the beginnings of a quilting business.

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Elara

Built for Bigger Possibilities

With its spacious 24-inch throat and smooth, precision stitching, the Elara gives quilters more room for larger blocks, intricate quilting designs, and increased productivity whether quilting for themselves or others.

See the Elara

Diamond

Professional Performance Without Compromise

Designed for serious quilters and business owners, the Diamond delivers maximum quilting space, premium features, and the performance needed for demanding quilting projects every day.

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There's a Nolting for where you are - and where you're going.

Which Longarm Is Right For Me?

Every great quilt needs a strong foundation

Your machine may do the stitching, but your frame supports everything that makes great quilting possible.  Stability, smooth movement, quilt capacity, comfort, and even future upgrades can be influenced by the frame you choose.

 

Depending on machine model, Nolting offers two frame options, the Commercial Frame for all Nolting models and the Steel Stretch Frame for the Raya and Flair.  Both frames are steel construction, rigid, offer height adjustment and customizing options.

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Commercial Frame with Elara and IntelliQuilter Automation

Commercial Longarm System Footprint

Frame footprint: 12 feet long x 4 feet deep

 

Frame and working space footprint: 14 feet long x 7-8 feet deep (allow 3 feet to comfortably use machine).  Consider casters to move frame front/back to optimize for smaller spaces.
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Commercial Frame Footprint

Frame footprint: 12 feet long x 4 feet deep

 

Frame and working space footprint: 14 feet long x 7-8 feet deep (allow 3 feet to comfortably use machine).  Consider casters to move frame front/back to optimize for smaller spaces.

YOUR QUILTING SPACE MATTERS, TOO

Your quilting space is an important part of choosing the right longarm system and one that can be easy to overlook. Consider your room dimensions, the size quilts you want to create, frame length, working space around the frame, storage, and accessibility so you can quilt comfortably and efficiently. 

 

Nolting offers commercial frame custom lengths to accommodate different spaces and quilting needs, allowing you to create a setup that works for your studio without unnecessarily limiting the quilts you can make.

 

Accessibility - Your quilting frame should fit you—not the other way around. Nolting can customize the Commercial Frame to accommodate quilters who are shorter or taller, prefer or need to quilt while seated, benefit from hydraulic height adjustment, or have other individual accessibility needs.  Learn More

 

 

 

 

Quilting Studio Planning Checklist

Measure the dimensions of the room.  Will the working footprint of the longarm system fit in your space?

What size quilts do you plan on making?  This determines the length of the frame required.

What other items will be in the quilting studio and how much space will they need?

Is storage planned for thread, batting, rulers, and other quilting items?

Have you planned accessibility space - will there be enough room to navigate between the longarm and other items in the quilting studio?

Is there adequate overhead lighting?

Is there easy access to a standard grounded wall outlet? 

PERFORMANCE CAN HAVE PERSONALITY

Your longarm will become an important part of your creative space.  Why shouldn't it look like it belongs there?  

Select from available paint colors and make your Nolting as individual as the quilts you'll create with it.

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Commercial Frame Starter Package

BUILD YOUR SYSTEM.  GET MORE VALUE.

Bundle & Save

When you choose a complete Nolting longarm system, available bundles combine your machine and frame with upgrades, accessories, and additional training for added value. It’s a simple way to build the right system while making the most of your longarm investment.

 

All machine with frame purchases come with the starter package that includes items you need to begin quilting right away.

 

Bundle options vary.  Your Nolting dealer can help you select the bundle package or packages that are right for you.

Included in the commercial frame starter package:

Machine and 12 foot frame (custom length available), leaders, side clamps 

Bobbin Winder

Bobbins, needles, 1 spool thread, sewing machine oil

Machine Manual and "Basics and Beyond with Nolting"

1-2 hours training

3 Pantographs if optional back handles are included

make your system work for you

BUY FOR THE QUILTER YOU'RE BECOMING

Think About Tomorrow

You don't have to know exactly where quilting will take you.  But thinking ahead can help you choose a system you won't quickly outgrow.

 

Consider not only what you want to quilt today, but what you might want to try tomorrow - larger quilts, more detailed designs, automation, custom quilting, or even quilting for others.

Millie telling stories about quilts she quilted on her Diamond

We'll Help You Put the Pieces Together

You Don't Have to Figure It Out Alone

Choosing a longarm doesn't mean making every decision on your own.  Nolting and its dealers can help you consider your quilting goals, available space, machine, frame, and options to create a system that works for you.

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Choosing a longarm doesn't mean making every decision on your own.  Nolting and its dealers can help you consider your quilting goals, available space, machine, frame, and options to create a system that works for you.

YOUR QUILTING JOURNEY STARTS HERE

Your first longarm doesn't have to be your final quilting destination.  Choose the machine, frame, and options that give you confidence to begin, and room to discover everything quilting can become.

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Kayla (right) teaching hand guided quilting - July 2026 Open House