• Sometimes Crafter Longarm Quilting // Heather O'Brian's Traveling Quilt

    Quilting A Traveling Quilt

    Sometimes Crafter August 21, 2015

    Today i’m sharing another quilt quilted with the Gingersnap pattern.  It’s such a nice, versatile pattern on quilts.  This is Heather O’Brian’s Instagram Traveling Quilt, made with contributions from several other gals in their group (she blogged about the top here).   It was amazing to see in person, so bright and cheerful!  My favorite kind of quilts to work on.  Just walking into my studio and seeing something so colorful on my frame puts a big smile on my face.  Heather helps me with all of my patterns, testing and proofing them, and I was so excited to quilt…

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  • Sometimes Crafter Longarm Quilting // Angela's Cheerio Quilt

    Quilting Cheerios

    Sometimes Crafter August 20, 2015

    A few months before I quilted Angela’s fox quilt, I quilted her Cheerio quilt.  I loved all of her fabric choices, and while this was the first time i’d seen this quilt pattern, I thought the fabrics worked perfectly with it.  It’s a Thimble Blossom pattern, and when I think of Angela’s style, I can’t help but think of Camille Roskelley, too.  I gave Angela a few designs to choose from, that I thought would work well for the quilting of this quilt, and I was very happy when she picked my first choice.  This quilting design is called Gingersnap and it…

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  • Quilting Foxes

    Sometimes Crafter August 17, 2015

    I quilted this adorable fox quilt back in April for Angela.  It is baby size, and was such a fast quilt, that I didn’t even get anything on Instagram of this one.  Angela asked for woodgrain quilting, so I sketched out an idea and then free-motion quilted it on.  She wanted woodgrain, but not too dense, so the quilt was still soft and snuggly.  I think the quilting achieved just that.  It was really hard to capture the quilting on the quilt itself, it blended in so well with the background fabric, that I sent along this sketch with Angela…

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  • Sometimes Crafter Longarm Quilting - Darci Yaden Modern Maple

    Modern Maples + Modern Feathers

    Sometimes Crafter August 15, 2015

    I was going through my photos of my longarm quilting today and realized there are a lot of quilts that I haven’t shared here yet.  I’m not exaggerating when I say “a lot”.  I am pretty good about sharing photos on Instagram as I’m working on a quilt, but it’s usually only a sneak peek, and I don’t always share every quilt I work on.  I need to be better about that, though.  This is my business and how does someone know if they want to hire me for longarm quilting if they can’t see a full range of my…

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  • Painted Basket Quilt

    Sometimes Crafter August 12, 2015

    This pattern can now be purchased here! A few weeks ago Art Gallery Fabrics emailed to see if I would be interested in creating something with Katarina Roccella’s new line, Imprint.  I really like Katarina’s designs, but I’m sure you have noticed from my last few quilts, I tend to go for lighter colored fabrics that have very little in the way of saturated color, and Katarina’s fabrics never lack for beautifully saturated colors.  I almost said no because of my desire to always create things that are light and bright, but then I had a peek at the lookbook…

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