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Please enjoy the slideshows of some of my longarm work. Click the left and right arrows to view.

Double Wedding Ring - Lots of Negative Space to have fun filling!

A customer that is not a quilter found two rows of a vintage double wedding ring quilt. She wanted some suggestions of what she could do with just two rows. After throwing out a couple of suggestions, she decided for me to appliqué it on top of a solid piece of fabric and custom quilt the two rows and doodle quilt in the negative space. It was a fun way to take something old and make it new and something useful.

A Beautiful Bjorn Bear

I was recently privileged to quilt a fun Bjorn Bear top - in fact it is so fun I bought the pattern and will piece one for me in the near future!

Lets go sailing!

Please enjoy this well-pieced boating quilt.

Fantastic Example of Meg Hawkeys’ Crabapple Hill Lace Cabins Wintery Quilter’s Village

A precisely pieced and appliqued Wintery Quilter’s Village quilt was found under the needle of my Amara. Following the theme of the quilt, swirls of wind, gentle waves of blown snow, a well-trodden path to a cabin with gently wafting smoke rising from the chimney, and a happy snowman almost magically appeared as the longarm danced its way through the Quilter’s Village.

Butterfly - Pattern by Tula Pink

I was privileged to be asked to quilt this impeccably pieced King-Size Butterfly Quilt using the colorful pattern from one of my favorites - Tula Pink. One of the defining features that really makes the quilt a piece of eye-candy is the micro-quilted antenna - I literally went through dozens of layouts until I landed on the one “called for” by the quilt.

Fun group out from under the longarm - Applique’, Shadow, Cross and Crown, and Star Quilts

My studio saw a lot of variation in quilt types recently. Please enjoy an Applique’ quilt where the intricate patterns around the applique’d pieces really make it “pop” three-dimensionally, a Shadow quilt that tricks the eyes into thinking it has depth, a Cross and Crown quilt loaded with Feathers and Swirls, and a Star quilt with lots of negative space that let my free-motion Amara loose to do its creative best.

Mama’s Scraps

This quilt is made from my mama's scraps that we found in the attic while cleaning out my childhood home for the estate sale. Some of the scraps are from clothes mama made for me and my grandma. Other scraps are from the textile plant she worked in for awhile. I washed, ironed, and sorted them by color and took them in Zip-Lock baggies to Diane Tomlinson's (from Fons and Porter) Pickle-dish class. I fondly call it Mama's Scraps.

Spring 2020 has Sprung - Antique Curved Nine-Patch Quilt, Sampler, and Kaffe Fassett Trip Around the World Edge-to Edge

What a crazy Spring as this nasty Covid-19 coronavirus has so terribly affected our world. It has allowed some serious quilting to occur as we all shelter-in-place. One of my quilting joys is to find a well-loved but unquilted top - max price $30 - at a collectibles store or antique shop and then finish quilting it with the care and attention it deserves. Please enjoy the Curved Nine Patch, beautiful sampler pieced by one of my customers, and a Trip Around the World Kaffe Fassett pattern quilted Edge-to-Edge with the Pro-Stitcher.

Winter 2020 - Vintage Quilts, Table Runners, and 100-block Modern Quilt designed by Tula Pink

There have been several delightful projects on my longarm recently - a table runner each themed on January, February, and March; a vintage quilt, and a really fun 100 block modern quilt designed by Tula Pink with quilting demonstrated by one of my favorite sew-lebrities Angela Walters - enjoy my interpretation.

Princesses, Christmas Tree, Antique - some of the quilts under my needle recently.

As you may have seen in my blog I was privileged to quilt the signatures of Disney Princesses for a 3 year old, and also recently quilted a “3D” Christmas Tree quilt that was designed and pieced by Linda Fakhori of Marietta, GA, and quilted a beautiful antique quilt.

From Court House to Applique’

Some very interesting and challenging quilts came under the needle in the last few weeks - including an intricately-pieced Applique’ beauty, a Court House block variation, and a One-Block Wonder Table Runner. Take a look and enjoy!

A fun trip to South Africa!

I was delighted to be chosen by Atlanta-based South African artist Lynette Joel of Lynette Joel Designs, http://www.lynettejoel.com/ - and thanks to her generosity I am able to share her copyrighted art with my viewers. The two quilts show colorful elephants and exotic birds, each one of which was designed, digitized, and embroidered by Lynette in her studio - please zoom in on them and check out the closeups of the rear to see the detailed creativity. Note that there are two photos of the front of each with different lighting to better display the exotic colors. I had a really tough time returning these beautiful works of art - but I left with some more to quilt so keep your eyes open for future updates.

May 2019 - May has been a really busy month starting with a fantastic three-day deep-immersion quilting class with Jamie Wallen at Quilter’s Apothecary - I came back worn out but with greatly improved knowledge and skills. In addition to longarming a half-dozen Quilts of Valor I was privileged to quilt some tops crafted by really talented quilters including a beautiful king quilt, frivolous dachshund wall hanging, a Dresden Plate Quilt, and a Bordered Squares Quilt - to which I added surprises including dragonflies and butterflies. The closeups and pics of the back really show how free-motion quilting can make a beautiful piece even more stunning. Please browse and enjoy, and if you have any comments please ping me here.

The slide show below is of a Shower Curtain Quilt I quilted as a graduation gift for a high school graduate that I taught in Kindergarten oh-so-many years ago. She is a musician - so what better theme than music symbols like the Treble Clef, Bass Clef, and Eighth Note. Guess where this idea came from? Jamie Wallen! He taught us that cloth shower curtains are very inexpensive, great to practice on, and make great beach blankets as they resist water and the sand will easily shake off of them.

April 2019 - just finished this extremely well-pieced, large, and gorgeous quilt for a new customer. Enjoy the lines mixed with curves, feathers, and my favorite - the back.

After you enjoy - lots more to look at below including some of the many Quilts of Valor I have quilted to honor our United States veterans from WWII to present - if they served for me the least I can do is quilt for them.