First Blog

Hello Everyone,

After being in the Long-Arm Quilting buisiness for over a year now, my friend has convinced me that I need to blog about it. So here I am! :) I live in a cabin in the Uintah Mountains and really enjoy quilting in my design studio as I watch the deer, moose, and squirels run around my yard. It's such a treat!

My machine is a Gammill Optimum with the Statler Stitcher. For those of you who are not quite sure what that means, it's a HUGE quilting machine where I can quilt free-motion and use any of the 1600+ computerized designs.

I have recently started renting out my long-arm. No...it's not portable. People buy punch-cards and come up to my studio to quilt their quilts. I have heard of so many people who would never let others use their long-arm, however I have had nothing but positive experiences so far. If any of you have any comments on this idea, I sure would love to hear from you!

The project that is getting ready to go on the machine next is a Butterfly. It's actually a class by Linda Taylor. I'll post a picture of it when I'm finished.

Since I don't have any current pictures to post, I'll post the one of my first quilt. The black and white outline is the pattern. I took it from a mandalla coloring book and turned it into the quilt you see below. Aside from the borders, there were not any straight lines! The quilting was all done on my home sewing machine (pre-LongArm days!!). If you look closely at the quilting pattern in the orange border, you'll see that it's the same pattern as the mandalla.

Well that's all I have for now. I'm off to bed so I can get up early and start working on that butterfly!

--angie