Professional Longarm Quilting Services
More often than not I am asked to choose the quilting design when quilts are left with me. In this case I had a few ideas and sent them to my client. She chose the pantograph Tickle Too…a fun to quilt design that adds swirls and feather plumes to dance all over the quilt.
This design has a perfect density for a bed quilt.
The quilting really shines on the back doesn’t it!
The quilt is trimmed and ready for binding.
We have been experiencing normal deep freeze winter weather here for the last week or so ago. For the most part winter weather doesn’t bother me.
I do love a bright sunshiny January day and yesterday was one of those days!
I am over due in sharing this special quilt that was made during 2023 for my daughter Mary. It has a lot of significance personally and was a joy to make.
After quilting the quilt with the pantograph Butterfly Charm and a beautiful variegated thread, I added additional quilting with my domestic machine and wonderfil Glamore thread to add more glitz.
My daughter loves purple and butterflies and she told me that she had wanted a quilt with this quilting design from the moment it first arrived in my studio so many years ago. When she saw the quilt as a kit on a Keepsake Quilting Catalogue she quickly requested it.
Her son Liam asked to make the label for this special quilt and he did a fantastic job!
Starswirl is a beautiful pantograph design, it has a really nice flow to guide my machine over creating a beautiful even density of stitches over the quilt.
The stitches are so pretty and really shine on the blue backing! The daylight was not overly cooperative yesterday, the first picture is a truer image of the green in this fun quilt.
The quilt is trimmed and ready for binding. This quilter is making quilts for each grandchild and saving them for when they are grown.
My view this morning…I love the snow laden tree look!
A couple of posts ago I shared a picture of the backing fabric being prepared for this quilt.
In my opinion it is well worth the time to do things well. This includes pinning and making sure that my end result is a beautifully quilted quilt that lays flat without puckers or pleats. I know that there are short cuts, however I also know that shortcuts can result in issues that I am not happy with.
It’s a wonderful feeling when I finish a quilt that I know that my customer will feel proud of.
The backing:
Joan has been using her stash to create fantastic quilts!
I really enjoy a good splash of colour in my studio!
Her quilt is trimmed and the binding prepared and ready for pick up.
What are you working on? Do you use your scraps?
Most of my quilting time is spent helping my customers complete their quilts. I do however schedule in time for myself to piece.
I like to have a few projects on the go at the same time, do you?
My current fun is the scrappy postage stamp quilt which I will be working on for a while!
Now that the holidays are once again ready to be tucked away and added to memories of Christmas pasts, I am ready to get back to sharing my work!
My longarm has new wheels and is ready to get back to work!
Preparation is key to great results! I often piece customer backings and as I have mentioned before there is no additional cost for this service.
In my opinion most backings when piecing yardage look better when the pattern is matched and so I do take the time if there is enough fabric supplied and my customer wants it done.
Preparing both the top and backing with a good pressing, also enables me to double check before loading just in case there might be issues that can be corrected easily before quilting. Loading freshly pressed backings also assures that there won’t be puckers or pleats in the quilt after quilting.
As I enter my 20th year of Longarm Quilting for customers, I am looking forward to continue helping others to complete their quilting projects.
Let’s start with my morning view!!! That looks more like it for this time of year ☃️
Somehow the week between Christmas and New Years has flown by! Not without a lot of fun. We had Grand parenting days. While there was no snow so no snowmobiling, Erik took the kids on Quad rides instead.
If I haven’t mentioned it before we have several trails throughout our property, we really enjoy them and visiting the pond as well. Well the Grandchildren love the trails!
Grayson decided that he wanted to learn some sewing and asked if he could learn to hand sew! Maybe this was inspiring
Grayson even got Pappa involved in the sewing!
Grayson is getting really good on the machine as well, working on the bag that he is making
Kaija discovered my newest scissors and enjoyed snipping scraps and cutting out the sloths from a trimmed piece.
Kaija and I made a bag together, she likes to use the foot petal while I guide the fabric. She loves choosing the fabrics as well. it won’t be long before she is using the machine.
She was really silly when I took the picture…how scary does that marker look. She is really careful about colouring though.
Minka and Romee joined in one afternoon! Grayson and Pappa built a fort for the girls. They made full use of it and had a lot of fun together.
I love this picture my daughter sent of Minka’s fort at home, she is inside with a quilt sleeping and using Romees quilt to cover the fort! I love to see the quilts I make in action!!
Today is the 19th anniversary of my Longarm quilting machines arrival, I also like to call it her birthday. My Millennium is an amazing machine and I have a special treat for her that I will share soon.
Welcome December 21! The first official day of winter…I may come to regret saying this but where is the snow? The weather forecast for Christmas Eve and day are for above 0 Celsius. This might just be my first not white Christmas in Thunder Bay.
I am finishing up my Christmas projects this week. This little pouch along with another were my fun task last night. I love making these little projects and they make fun gifts.
This Christmas tree quilt was made using a pattern and fabrics by Edita Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts. It was such a pleasure to quilt and enjoy having in my studio!
We chose the pantograph Rhapsody which played on the theme in many of the fabrics.
I like to choose a design that compliments the quilt not necessarily one that echoes the design. Thread colour and weight of thread also make a big difference in the outcome of the quilting.
I personally find it very difficult not to be inspired by the quilts that I work on! Edita’s quilts often have the small piecing that I love to do and the appliqué ❤️
I love the way the quilting shows on the back of the quilt!
Trimmed and ready for binding!
Let me help you to complete your quilting projects!
As we move closer to Winter solstice our amount of natural daylight hours become less and less add to that, that it seems that the sun is shy and hiding behind the clouds… making it really challenging to truly capture the true beauty of some quilts. I came close with this quilt.
Marlene’s White Chocolate quilt is absolutely stunning with its subtle soft colours and creamy backgrounds.
After looking at several options for the quilting, Marlene chose the pantograph Gravity. The fun oval design of this pantograph leans toward a modern look and really plays so nicely with this more traditional looking quilt.
The curves in the quilting soften the angular look in the piecing.
The backing fabric has a beautiful sheen to it and as it was brought to me as yardage, it was pieced by me, carefully matching the design. This is a complementary service that I offer.
Both quilt top and backing are always carefully pressed before loading onto my Longarm.
The quilt was trimmed after quilting and ready for binding when Marlene picked her quilt up.
Let me help you bring your quilting projects to completion.
Cathy took part in Joyce Gilmores quilting retreat in Terrace Bay this fall, she had let me know that she was making the quilt and as she already had a quilt in the queue when she told me she was going I had added this Christmas one along with her batik quilt.
If you let me know when you begin a quilt and would like to have me quilt it for you I will add you into my list at that point.
She has named her quilt Baby it’s Cold Outside.
It was a fun and happy quilt to work on and she chose the pantograph Rhapsody and a perfect one in my opinion for this quilt!
Cathy likes to have me attach her bindings for her so that they are ready for hand stitching when she picks them up.
She had this quilt completed finished for Monday and showed both this and her Batik quilt at the Guild meeting this week.
Wendy’s Quilting and Life 