Professional Longarm Quilting Services
What a perfect quilt for a 3 year old grandson! The construction quilt!
The pantograph Waterworld was chosen for the quilting design by us as it offers a perfect density that should hold this quilt together well for what we hope many hours of play and snuggling.
The backing print full of loaders was a perfect choice for the quilt and the print was perfectly matched so that it’s hard to find the seam.
Her quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up!
This was a fun quilt to add my quilting and hand stitching to! I love the messages about reading which made me smile as I advanced each row!
We chose the quilting design Jitterbug with its playfulness adding more joy to a fun quilt!
The important message for us all in the center of the quilt.
The backing required piecing, which is always a complimentary service that I provide, which also includes matching the pattern whenever it is possible.
This quilt was also bound and ready for use at pick up. Yes I do hand stitch bindings for my customers.
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What a fun pleasure to quilt my customers quilt made with the pattern Said the Night Wind by McKenna Ryan!
I absolutely adore this designers work especially all of the amazing details. My customer carefully stitched around each appliqué and added gold glitz to the star!
I chose the quilting design, Star Swirl, it is a fun design that adds soft swirls and movement to this wonderful winter scene.
I love that Father Christmas is cross country skiing!
Of course her quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up!
I do love the North, no I am not crazy about being outside in bone chilling -40C especially when the wind is blowing…that to me is perfect make a pot of soup and stay in and quilt weather.
There is something so magical though watching the snow fall and breathing in fresh crisp air!
My view from the Longarm room this morning…it didn’t capture the snow-falling though.
I am so appreciative of all of my customers to entrust their quilts to me to be completed. I have many quilters whom I have been quilting for many years!
This customer has relocated to Manitoba and we have still found ways to work together!
We chose the quilting design Star-swirl for this King sized quilt. It measured 114” square which I was able to easily accommodate on my 12 foot frame! Have I mentioned how much I love my APQS Millennium before?
The backing is a perfect match to the pink in the batik fabric that is in the top and looks amazing together in person.
We had an extremely cold week here and I was grateful to have to spend some of my time hand stitching the binding on this quilt!
So not only was this quilt trimmed and ready for binding it was completely finished and ready for gifting with plenty of time to spare before the wedding is taking place.
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When this quilt was picked up, my customer exclaimed how much the quilting makes the quilt! It truly does bring the elements together.
Choosing the pantograph Rhapsody played on the florals in this quilt along with having curves and swirls against the straight lines in the piecing added a softness to the appearance of the quilt.
I love the elegance of this quilt, that really showcases some of the beautiful floral prints that can accumulate in our stashes over time. Of course you can use any prints to crest a similar quilt.
Her quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up. Which is always a complimentary service that I offer and is never refused.
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Let me start with a Liam update…he is officially much taller than me and more so every time I see him it seems.
He is also a big brother to our youngest grandchild Lydia. He is an amazing big brother and absolutely adores his little sister.
I wanted to make Lydia’s first quilt pink as I have made for 3 of our other granddaughters. Kaija asked to help make hers and hopefully we will have time to work on that soon.
My daughter Mary, Liam and Lydia’s Mom has many of the quilts that I have made along with ones from my Mom. So I decided that her first quilt would have Minki for the backing so that it would be perfect for tummy time.
These quilts are super fun to make and in this case I also added a striped fabric for binding that I cut on the bias. (My kind of fun!)
I used the pantograph Two of Hearts for the quilting, it just adds so much more love!!
Sometimes I do slip in some time for personal quilting!
There are so many things to be grateful for as this new year begins to unfold!
Family and friends to begin with! Erik and I were gifted with time with both over the holidays!
Grand days as I like to call our days with caring for and spending time with the youngest members of our family are full of fun and adventures. Our weather wasn’t cooperative in a lot of our normal outdoor activities so we found other ways to have fun, Erik turns the garage into all kinds of fun and of course there is always crafting in the house!
I enjoyed a wonderful visit with my dear friend Betty! She is an amazing role model and might I say Model as well.
She turned 90 in November (Liam shares her birthday) unfortunately due to the postal strike her gift from her daughter in law was delayed … however it has arrived and Betty looks awesome in her new Jean Jacket!!!
Betty continues to sew and quilt almost daily, she encourages and cheer on her friends and family! She and I always have the most amazing conversations too 🥰
I wish all of my friends, family and customers the very best this new year!
Our day will be quiet and relaxing followed by dinner at my Dads.
Our big celebration was held on Sunday, a tradition that I began as the grandchildren began to arrive.
We host our Christmas brunch on the Sunday before Christmas… this year we had 21 of us together 9 children it was a fun filled day of yummy food, opening of gifts and snow play!!
It was our newest granddaughters first Christmas.
Missing were my eldest and her family who live in Texas, and my youngest daughter and husband who are away for Christmas this year, also Eriks middle daughter who was working out of town they were all here in our hearts though!
I wish you all a lovely day and am so thankful for those who visit and read my blog as well as my wonderful customers who entrust me with their quilts and allow me to share them with you!!
December has been another busy month in my studio. I absolutely love being able to help other quilters finish their projects!
Seeing the pantograph Nebula on another recent quilt that I quilted, the same design was chosen for this quilt by its maker and it was also a perfect fit.
Choosing the thread colour for this quilt created a question of contrast. Had I chosen the cream colour matching the lightest fabric the contrast would have been too strong over the darker colours.
When that happens, in some areas of a quilt your eye will be drawn to the contrast that shows a small awkward looking amount of the design instead of a lovely flow over the entire quilt. I chose a softer tan that played beautifully over all of the fabrics.
The backing fabric is such a beautiful butterfly print, adding a fun surprise on the back and in perfect tones to blend with the quilt top.
This quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up!
It’s looking very promising that we will have a white Christmas!
Erik plowed the driveway and yard last night and this morning our driveway has disappeared. Thankfully my commute to work is down the stairs!
My great start to the morning! This pretty quilt will be trimmed and ready to go this morning!
This project for a customer is almost ready for pick up! It’s a treasured tree skirt make by its owners Mom years ago that needed some updating, repairs and quilting and of course binding. I chose the backing and binding, and absolutely love the red and white stripe fabric cut on the bias for its binding!
It’s so beautiful where I work, play and live! We are located within City limits and yet have an out in the country feel. There is always plenty of parking for my customers and never ever any parking meters to deal with 😊
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