Month: November 2014

As we are approaching the beginning of the Holiday Season, I cannot help but reflect on this past year and be so thankful for all of my customers for entrusting me with their quilts…… for my quilt guild and quilt group for encouraging me along the way and being my cheerleaders…..and for my friends and…

This year I had the honor of quilting a quilt for the 3rd grade math class at The Kent School in Chestertown, MD. As part of their Geometry unit, the 3rd grade students explored the different ways that a three inch square can be divided into fractional parts of a whole.  Each design had to…

Many of my customers do amazing hand appliqué on their quilts.  It always amazes me how beautiful they are, and I think part of that reason is because not only is their handwork impeccable, but  I just don’t like that “HW” word  (hand work)  very much, so anyone that does it on a large scale…

Two years ago this month I opened my own long arm business doing custom quilting.  I really wasn’t sure at the time how I would pull it off, if I was any good at it, or if people would like my work……..but what I did know is that I loved this part of the quilting…