Creative Homemaker

As a professional longarm quilter, in my opinion, it is my duty to make you look good.  I've discussed this with several longarmers.  They complain incessantly about how this client brought a quilt that has loose ends, threads, or a bit of animal fuzz.  I look at it this way; your bit of lint, or thread isn't any worse than my studio. We have a dog.  He's not a dirty dog by any means, but he does shed.  I use my lint roller constantly to remove fuzz from any quilt that get's quilted at Mary's Custom Quilting.  Loading your quilt on my Tin Lizzie is my job.  Getting the edges straight is my job.  Rolling the lint roller over your quilt to remove loose threads and lint is my job! And I'm darn good at it.  Most of my customers are extremely tidy, and seams are pressed the correct way.  One quilter even presses them all open so there is no bulk at the seams.  Her quilts are a joy to finish! But honestly, if pressin...

I just finished my first Leader and Ender quilt. They are quilts that sew themselves! This pattern is called Sisters 9-Patch, from her book Adventures with Leaders and Enders. This one is for the back of my couch and will sport a pretty cream and green border.

End of the year, (ok, actually beginning of the year actually, but I did these last year...) tally. The first finish was Robby's Winds of Sodor quilt.  It's made from strings and crumbs--wonky log cabin style.  It's the second in a series of three quilts for my boys' room.  The back of Robby's quilt has a train panel given to me by a friend who knows I quilt.  I added extra wonky log cabin blocks around the perimeter of the panel.  We now have a sort of two-sided quilt. I quilted it in a overall swirl pattern. It's interesting to see the improvement in my quilting.  That first wonky log cabin is, well, quilted, but not good at all. The pattern is laid out in a "streak of lightening" pattern, The light colors zig-zag across the quilt diagonally. You can see the stitching better here.  Robby says it looks like wind. The next quilt I finished is from February.  My father in law died and it's made from his shirts.  It's styled...