longarm quilting

  • Feathered Star Quilt

    Sometimes Crafter January 26, 2018

    Remember the days when I use to blog daily…yeah, me either.  It’s been so long since I’ve done any regular blogging and every year I tell myself this is the year I get back on track.  It just never seems to happen.  Social media has taken a backseat to actual life more and more every year.  I had a Facebook for years and I officially got rid of it two years ago.  Best decision I ever made.  I still like to share over on Instagram, but I don’t really spend a lot of time on there and I mostly share…

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  • Kite Flight Quilt + Quilting Video

    Sometimes Crafter February 26, 2017

    I just recently quilted this beautiful Kite Flight quilt by Heather Wall (@heathersnacks).  If i’m remembering correctly, Heather is a new-ish quilter, and she did a really wonderful job on this.  The seams weren’t too bulky, everything laid flat and lined up well and was relatively square, which I noticed would be rather hard to achieve with all the bias seams that end up in this block.  She was going back and forth between two patterns and ultimately let me decide on the best one for the quilt.  I think Rainbow Clams ended up being perfect for the top.  Not…

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  • AGF Stitched // Blithe Quilt

    Sometimes Crafter March 7, 2016

    Another year of AGF Stitched has started up!  If you aren’t familiar with AGF Stitched, it’s a collaboration between Art Gallery Fabrics and Fat Quarter Shop.  Each quarter a group of select bloggers makes a set pattern with Art Gallery Fabrics of our choosing, and Fat Quarter Shop puts together a video tutorial for making the quilt.  Our first quilt for this year is the Blithe Quilt, which is available as a free download at Fat Quarter Shop.

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  • AGF Stitched // Locket Quilt

    Sometimes Crafter January 7, 2016

    I’m a week late posting my AGF Stitched quilt for the last quarter of 2015.  December threw me for a loop, not least of which was because I had a horrible flu that just wouldn’t go away.  Despite all of that, I was able to finish the 4th quilt in the AGF Stitched series.  It’s the Locket Quilt pattern (a free download) designed to feature Amy Sinibaldi’s new fabric line for Art Gallery Fabrics (which I just love).  For my version of the Locket Quilt I used fabrics from April Rhodes Bound fabric line.  As i’ve said with the past…

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  • Modern Feathers Class

    Sometimes Crafter September 5, 2015

    Next month i’ll be teaching a Modern Free-Motion Feathers class at Modern Domestic on their new Bernina Q24 longarm!  If you have a midarm or longarm machine, or like to rent time on the longarm at the shop, and have wanted to learn the basics of quilting feathers, this is the class for you!    We will start at the very beginning, learning how to form a basic feather spine and petal and from there branch out to learn just what we can do with it. You can add fun things like decorative spines, swirls between feathers and branch out…

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  • 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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