Longarm Projects​​​​​​​​
In-House

1. Memory Quilt for a Niece​ 
2. Debra - Basketball Quilt
3. Debra - Hoops Quilt

​​​On the Way​​​​​​​​​​

                   My Quilts
​​ Binding Queue​​​​

1. ​Bear Panel Quilt​​ - Today

​​​​Piecing Queue​​

1. ​Crystal's Wow Quilt​

Longarming Queue​​​

1. ​Double Quatrefoil

​Oct 09: Quilt arrived.

Oct 09: Quilt arrived.

Oct 08: Quilted

Sep 20: First contact. Since Roxie lives in nearby West Jefferson, we set a date to do her quilt together.
Oct 02: Rozie is here today helping longarm her quilt. We are using a meander by Nancy Haacke with Bottom Line #610 Light Blue thread and Warm & White batting.Yeah! We finished!

Sep 26: Quilt arrived. Prepped the backing.
Sep 29: Top prepped ready to load.
Oct 03: Loaded. Using Bottom Line #623 Silver thread to quilt Stars pantograph by Dave Hudson.
​Oct 04: Quilting.
​Oct 06: Quilted.

Aug 23: Prepped.
Aug 26: Quilted.

quilt one, so I ​contacted Linda with questions and she said she would help me as much as she could. Her guidance is valued. When the quilt top that I pulled from my stash did not work out, it was Linda that suggested that making a new one might be easier than fixing the old one. I decided on a new pattern and using fabrics that I loved in my stash, I made a Quilt for Dad. Praying that Dad gets to use the quilt that I made for him. My apologies to anyone that I may be inconveniencing on Linda's to do list. Thanks to Linda for understanding the importance of this gift.
     ​​Prayers for my Dad are appreciated. Prayers of peace for him, strength for my Mom and the others of us that love him so. ​​

Jul 22: First contact.
Aug 17: Quilt arrived. Started on overlays.
Aug 18: A lover of guitars and music, Tracy & found the perfect Ellen Munnich pattern, ​Free Motion Guitar. Programmed. Prepped ready to load.
​Aug 19: Loaded. Quilting.
​Aug 20: Quilted.
Aug 24: From Tracy: "His smile says it all!"

Aug 09: Saw this pattern in the Ye Olde Forest monthly newsletter that came out today. Love it! Bought it! Played with it. Drew it. Now searching for fabrics. Turns out that the hard part.

Josie's First Quilt
Denise: Josie is a 7th grader who is taking sewing classes with me, Denise, her neighbor.
Josie plays clarinet, cornet, trumpet and piano, and is one of the fastest readers in her class.
The fabric was bought as coordinated 1/2 yard cuts at the Ontario Quilt show last January.
​We added the gold batik to brighten it up and pick up the metal in the instruments.  

Jun 13: First contact.
Jun 22: Quilt arrived. I absolutely love the batik in the border & also in the quilt.
Jul 23: Quilting.
​Jul 24: Quilted.

Jun 04: First Contact.
Jun 05: Programmed.
Jun 11: Quilt arrived.
Jul 02: Prepped (Preparation) ready to load.
Jul 03: Loaded. Quilting.
Jul 05: Quilted. Will pack up & ship tomorrow.

Jun 09: I showed this panel to my friend, Cecelia Fares. I know her from church & she is active on Facebook.Thought we had lost her & her husband recently when the home they were renting sold out from under them but they are back. YES! Cecelia has been a career nurse, is a natural beauty and a very personable woman. I liked her instantly. She is part of our after mass Sunday morning breakfast crew. And she is the partner on this quilt. Her response as we got into it was simple: the panel, purple, king size.
Jun 12: Over several days I made my way through my process. This is Cecelia's final plan. Purple batik fabric has been ordered from Ye Olde Forest Online Quilt Shop. The gold & the solid purple are on the way from Fabric.com. Still working on a layout for the IQ patterns. Quilt size is still to be determined by how much drop Cecelia wants. For now it is 90x100.
​Jun 14: The panel is here from Wing and a Prayer Design. I like the first IQ layout above. Cecelia liked it from the get-go.
Jun 16: The gold fabric and the purple backing fabric are here. The gold has speckles like angel dust. The purple photographs as blue. Maybe later.
​Jun 19: All the fabrics are in. I couldn't have gotten a better backing color match if I had been standing in a quilt shop. YES! The purple batik and the solid backing are rather stiff so I am going to pre-wash. The gold fabric is quite nice to the touch.
Jun 24: Pre-washed & pressed.
Jul 04: It's a holiday so I am working on this. Got everything cut except the backing.
Jul 07-9: Adding borders.
Jul 10: Quilt top is finished measuring approximately 88 x 98. The quilting will draw it up a bit more.
Jul 11: Fine tuning the programming.
Jul 12: I have details clear enough for Cecelia to pick one of four options.Still need to piece the backing.
​Jul 15: We have a final longarming plan. The backing is pieced but still needs squaring & pressing. Will do that when prepping for quilting. Binding is ready.
Jul 16: Quilt is packed away for now.
​Jul 17: Finished programming the design.
Sep 07: Polishing the design, prepped the backing.
​Sep 10: Batting is cut. Prepping the top.
Sep 11: Loaded the backing.
Sep 12: Cecelia selected her thread - Magnifico #2065 Amberlight. Wound the 15 bobbins I had free but that may not be enough. Normally I would say "loaded" at this point and be ready to start quilting. For this quilt, I want to start in the middle. I have basted the first section. I will roll the quilt & loosely baste the sides until I reach the middle.
Sep 13: At the middle & ready to quilt.
Sep 14: Quilting. Posted a video: https://youtu.be/R9_FJFXXNRc. 
Sep 15: Top half is quilted.
Sep 16: Didn't want to risk the machine getting interrupted by a power outage due to Florence so I left it off.
Sep 18: Quilted. Now the binding. Binding is attached & I am clipping it before hand sewing. @#)(*#$)(* !?L>* just seeing places on the back where the tension is too tight. The front looks okay. Hopefully the worse of it will only be on the drop & on the back. After all that work too. There is nothing I can do at this point. It is what it is - homemade. Clips are on ready for handwork.
Sep 19-21: Binding
Sep 22: The binding is done. The quilt is ready to deliver.

Jun 09: Saw the bag online. Love it.
Jun 10: Pattern & fabrics are on the way from Ye Olde Forest Online Quilt Shop.
​Jun 19: Fabrics are here.
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Jun 08: Ordered the kit from Wing and a Prayer Design.
Jun 14: The kit  is here 

May 28: First contact.
Jun 07: The quilt is here. Sew cute!​ I had to do that. Using Sewing pantograph, Bottomline Silver thread & Quilters Dream batting.
​Jun 13: Programmed IQ.
Jun 21: Prepped ready to load. Perfect piecing, by the way. Loaded ready to quilt.
Jun 22: Quilted.