Celebrating 40 Years of Grace Company

Forty years ago, Grace Company started with a simple idea: quilting could be easier.

What began as a conversation between a mother and her son has grown into a company whose quilting machines, frames, and accessories are used by quilters around the world. For 40 years, we’ve been focused on one thing: finding better ways to solve the challenges quilters face. And as we look back on everything that brought us here, one thing stands out more than anything else: we couldn’t have done it without the quilting community. The quilters who shared their ideas. The ones who told us what worked and what didn’t. The ones who challenged us to think differently and inspired us to keep creating. So, this September, we’re celebrating 40 Years of Grace and you’re invited.

From a Quilter’s Observation to the First GraceFrame

Every great idea has a starting point. For Grace Company, that starting point came from a quilter named Grace. Grace was a home quilter who noticed that there were things missing from the quilting tools available at the time. She shared her observations with her son, never knowing that those conversations would eventually inspire him to create a better quilting frame. When he asked Grace what he could build to help quilters like her, she closed her eyes and remembered a handmade quilting frame from her childhood. Working from that memory, he set out to recreate the experience of that frame for other quilters.

That first design became the GraceFrame. And with it, Grace Company was born.

The Early Years: Just Keep Showing Up

The first GraceFrame didn’t launch with a massive marketing campaign or a warehouse full of inventory. Instead, our founder packed up the frame, drove to the Houston International Quilt Festival, and set up a booth with his mother and wife. They told their story, demonstrated their frame, and sold enough to come back the following year. Then they did it again. And again.

As our founder recalls: “In the early years, it was sometimes just me and my mother running the booth. We just kept showing up.” That willingness to keep showing up became part of Grace Company’s story. Over the next four decades, the company continued to grow, innovate, and develop new solutions for quilters—from the first GraceFrame to quilting automation, machine quilting frames, longarm machines, and space-saving options designed to fit quilting into homes of all sizes.

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40 Years of Innovation

The quilting industry has changed dramatically over the past 40 years, and Grace has continued to evolve right alongside it.

Here are just a few milestones from our journey:

1986 — Grace Company begins
What started with an idea for a better quilting frame became the foundation of Grace Company.

1988 — The first square hoop frame
Grace creates the industry's first square hoop frame, opening up new possibilities for quilters.

2001 — Frames designed for machine quilting
Grace begins creating frames specifically designed to work with machine quilting.

2006 — A new kind of frame
Grace introduces its first frame built entirely without wood components.

2008 — QuiltMotion and TrueCut
Grace expands its innovation beyond frames with QuiltMotion automation and the TrueCut cutting system.

2014 — The Q’nique 14+ launches
Grace introduces its own line of quilting machines, beginning with the Q’nique 14+.

2015 — Space-saving innovation
Grace introduces the industry's first space-saving hoop-style frame.

2020 — The Cutie Tabletop Fabric Frame 
The Cutie Breeze tabletop fabric frame gives quilters a compact way to quilt without needing a dedicated quilting room.

2024 — The Mini Quilter
Grace introduces the Mini Quilter, offering one of its most space-saving and accessible frame options yet.

2025 — The Hummingbird Hoop and QMX for Domestic Machines
Grace continues expanding its quilting solutions with the Hummingbird Hoop and QuiltMotion X (QMX) for domestic machines.

And we're not finished yet.

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Built by Grace. Inspired by Quilters.

While our products have changed over the years, one thing hasn't: we listen to quilters.

Just as our founder listened to his mother all those years ago, we continue to listen to the people who use our products every day. Your feedback helps shape what we create next. Your questions help us identify where improvements can be made. Your quilting challenges inspire us to find new solutions. That relationship between Grace and the quilting community is at the heart of everything we do.

Our machines, frames, and accessories are designed and manufactured by our team. That means we're involved in the process from the earliest stages of development through production. We know our products because we build them. But for us, it's about more than simply creating a machine or frame. It's about creating tools that work the way quilters need them, whether you're quilting in a dedicated studio, at the kitchen table, or wherever your creativity takes you. After 40 years, we're still asking the same basic question that started it all: how can we make quilting better?

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Come Celebrate 40 Years of Grace with Us!

Forty years is a milestone worth celebrating, and we'd love to celebrate it with you. That's why we're hosting two special events in September.

 Join Us Online — September 10

Join us for a FREE online celebration that you can watch from wherever you are. We'll spend the hour celebrating 40 years of Grace, looking back at where we've been, celebrating the quilting community that got us here, and sharing what's ahead. And there's another reason to tune in... We'll also be announcing an exciting new release! So grab your favorite quilting project, settle in, and join us online as we celebrate four decades of Grace.

Date: September 10, 2026
Time: 2:00–3:00 PM MST
Where: Online

Register for the Free Online Event

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 Celebrate with Us in Utah — September 12

If you're local to Utah, we'd love to celebrate with you in person! Join us at Grace Company on September 12 at 11:00 AM for an anniversary celebration filled with quilting, food, games, prizes, and plenty of fun.

We'll have:

•  Door prizes and raffles
•  Free food from a local food truck
•  Fun quilting workshops
•  Games and activities
•  40th anniversary celebrations
•  And plenty of time to connect with fellow quilters

Whether you've been quilting with Grace products for decades or you're just discovering Grace for the first time, you are part of the community we're celebrating.

Date:  September 12, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Grace Company  

6748 S Redwood Rd
West Jordan, UT
84084 United States

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40 Years Down. And We're Just Getting Started.

From a handmade frame remembered from childhood to a company shipping quilting solutions around the world, Grace Company's story has always been about more than products. It's about people. It's about listening to quilters, solving problems, trying something new, and continuing to show up. Most importantly, it's about the community that has grown alongside us over the last 40 years.

Thank you for being part of our story.

Here's to 40 years of quilting innovation and to everything we're going to create together next.