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Welcome to the gallery of our quilting services. There are sections on this page that contains examples of the work we do organized by price. This is just a sample of the designs we have quilted. If you can dream it, we can qult it. We specialize in bringing your vision for your quilt into reality.

Below the "by price" picture section are samples of what we have created for our customers from  t-shirts, baby clothes and hierloom blocks. T-shirt quilts start at one hundred dollars for a quit using 9 t-shirts. Use the contact page for a quote for your quilt.

Useful information is contained in the sections on the left side. Be sure and check it out before ordering quilting services.

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  • We have several simple edge to edge  meanders that are just 1¢ per square inch. See the box on the right for samples.
  • More complicated meanders are 1 1/2¢ per square inch. We can also do a simple border with a penny meander for this price. See the box on the right for samples.
  • Custom quilting with border designs start at 2¢ per square inch. See the box on the right for samples.
  •  We do all our work with a hand guided Gammill quilting machine.
 
     
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The quilting design you choose can make a real difference in how your quilt looks when it is finished. The two quilts pictured below are the same pattern, batting and fabric. The first one is quilted with simple squiggly linesthat outline the blocks. The second is quilted with an overall meander design that incorporates loops and insects.
The two quilts look quite different. Which one do you prefer? Would it matter if the quilt was for a baby boy or a baby girl on which one you would choose?These two quiltig designs would look different if they were executed with cotton batting instead of the poly batting shown here

 
     
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How will my quilt be when I get it back from having it quilted?

 

Here is a quilt ready to be returned to the customer. The edges are basted. (Be sure to remove any basting threads that show after you bind the quilt.) You can see that this quilt is nice and square and the borders are flat. This quilt came to us square and flat and we are careful to return it that way. Sometimes we receive quilts with wavy borders. We have techniques to help ease the fullness of wavy borders so a quilt with wavy borders will come back closer to square than we received it in most cases. You can also see that there is extra batting and you can't see the extra backing fabric. Both of these things will still be attached to your quilt (if they were larger than your quilt) so you can trim things the way you like them. This way if you choose you can do a fold over binding.

 
     
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The better you do these steps, the better your quilt will be when you get it back:

The machine quilting process uses more backing fabric than front fabric so, your backing fabric should be larger than your top in all directions. For crib size quilts and smaller you will need at least two inches in one directions and three inches in the other. I can put your quilt on my machine sideways most of the time so it does not matter which direction is which for the extra inches. For larger quilts like throw quilts up to twin size we need two and four inches. For larger quilts like queen and king we need two and six inches. If you want the back to line up in a particular direction be sure to note which end is the top on both the backing and front fabrics.

Your quilt top and backing should be pressed so there are no pleats and the seams in the back are pressed to one side.. (Pleats often get quilted in permanently because I can not see the back while I am quilting.) Check to make sure all seams are sewn shut and pressed flat. Remove excess threads especially on lighter colored quilts as they tend to show through after quilting. Ideally your fabric will be square. Do your best to square things up. If you don't know how to do this, I can do it for you for a small charge.

Any seams that start at the edges of the quilt should be secure by either back-tacking the seam or by basting the perimeter of the quilt top to keep the edges from stretching while under tension on the machine. I can also do this for you for a small charge if you prefer.

 

 
     
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Stipple
Peacock Feather Meander
Stars and Loops Meander
Peacock Feather Meander
Stipple
Heart Meander

 
     
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Sticky Buns Meander
Squiggly Lines with a Meander Border
Water Ripples Meander
Squiggly Lines with a Custom Border
Planes & Loops Meander
Dino's & Loops Meander

 
     
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Custom Flames
Ferns & Flowers Meander with Free Form Feather Border
Squiggly Blossoms Meander
Simple Custom Work
Bugs & Loops Meander
Simple Custom Work

 
     
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Stitch-in-the-Ditch, Tight Stipple, Outline Work
Multiple Borders, Ruler Work in the Blocks.
Multiple Borders, Pam Clarke Design
Leaves using stencils, Outline Work.
Stenciled Leaf Border, Multiple Borders
Multiple Individual Block Designs
Ruler Work, Unique Feather in each Block
Multiple Borders, Very Detailed Pam Clarke Designed Blocks
Outlining, Whimsical Details, Original Design for Quilt

 
     
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Poly Batting increases chance of shirts pleating while being quilted.
T-shirts were cut to best highlight design on shirt then puzzle pieced together.
This shirt was too small to include unless we created a neckline pocket by using the back.
80/20 cotton/poly batting reduces chance of pleating while quilting.
Even very worn t-shirts can be used if backed with another fabric.
These well loved t-shirts were randomly placed on new fabric.

 
     
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We created a pieced block to compliment these embroidered blocks to make the quilt the size the customer needed.
We quilted around the handwork to accent it.
These colorful blocks were paired with plain fabric to create a harmonious effect and a large enough quilt for the bed.
This layout really is a beautiful was to use these beautiful blocks.
There were only a few blocks now it is a bed size quilt.
Some hand pieced quilts are a funny shape or have lumpy blocks, we worked with this one until it behaved.
Close up shows how we worked with stippling to control the lumpy blocks.
This beautiful quilt had lumpy blocks before we quilted it.
Close up shows how we massaged extra fabric into a beautiful quilt.

 
     
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