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January 9, 2015 By Mandy 22 Comments

My stop on the Blog Tour for Fast Piece Applique

Welcome, friends, to my stop on the Fast Piece Applique blog tour! If you love fun applique projects with curves and layering, yet don’t want to have to fiddle endlessly but still get great results, do I have a book for you: Rose Hughes has a new book out called Fast Piece Applique. You can see the piece […]

Filed Under: Applique, Books and Inspiration, Construction, Events, Free Patterns, Giveaway, Longarm Quilting Tagged With: Applique, Fast Piece Applique, quilt, quilting, Rose Hughes

January 8, 2015 By Mandy 1 Comment

recent finishes for Cristy

This little cutie is a mini that Cristy Fincher of Purple Daisies made.  The wreaths have this really great movement to them, and to quilt them, I knew I wanted to keep with that feeling of turning and twisting.  I broke down the wreaths into triangles, and put in a simple echoed triangle in those […]

Filed Under: Finishes, Longarm Quilting Tagged With: longarm quilting, mandalei, modern quilt, quilts, straight line quilting

January 4, 2015 By Mandy 5 Comments

Hello 2015!

December was a big month.  I went to my first BERNINA Ambassadors Retreat (and it was awesome!  I need to write about this.)!  I had a hard but good visit with my elderly grandmother in California (I am not writing about this).  I quilted a ton! Customer quilts: quilts for show and tell: and quilts […]

Filed Under: BERNINAusa, Events, Longarm Quilting, Recent Work Tagged With: 2015 resolutions, Carrie Bloomston, QuiltCon 2015, The Little Spark

December 11, 2014 By Mandy 3 Comments

Are you headed to QuiltCon 2015?

I’ve got my room, I’m looking for flights, and I’m happy to announce that two of my quilts will be at QuiltCon!  This will be a sneak peek from my forthcoming book, too!  And the title is… well, let’s just say I am really satisfied. I can’t show you the quilts, but I think I *can* […]

Filed Under: Books and Inspiration, Longarm Quilting Tagged With: fmq, freemotion quilting, longarm, mandalei, modern quilt, quilt, QuiltCon, QuiltCon 2015

November 20, 2014 By Mandy Leave a Comment

A collaboration with Rose Hughes

I first met Rose Hughes when I spoke at the BAQS Meetup at Fall Market 2013.  Rose is an artist whose medium is quilting, and I love her work.  It’s thoughtful and playful, just a really great combination. I knew her work before that, though, because I loved her fast piece applique technique and became interested […]

Filed Under: Construction, Events, Longarm Quilting

November 19, 2014 By Mandy Leave a Comment

Simple doesn’t have to mean uniform

Now that this one has arrived back to its owner, I can share it!  This is a pattern under construction by my customer Terri, and she wanted something simple to go with the overall simplicity of the quilt, and something that wasn’t full-on custom or too boring. At first I thought I would do a zig zag […]

Filed Under: Finishes, Longarm Quilting, Recent Work Tagged With: freemotion quilting, longarm, mandalei, mandalei quilts, quilting

November 13, 2014 By Mandy 1 Comment

A Tale of Two Quilts: Picking Quilting Designs

I wanted to share some recent finishes, and talk about choices when picking quilting for your top. This quilt, pieced by Jane at Jolly and Delilah Quilts from Tula Pink’s free pattern “Shoreline”. Jane is a state over from me, and so we ship back and forth using USPS priority.  It works great! For this quilt, […]

Filed Under: Longarm Quilting, Recent Work Tagged With: freemotion quilting, longarm, longarm quilting, mandalei

October 19, 2014 By Mandy 3 Comments

Some finished quilts to share

Terri W. has sent me some lovely quilts to finish, and I can share a few now that they’re back with her! the first is an Echino improv quilt, based off a tutorial by Elizabeth Hartman (Terri added a mini border and sashing, and it turned out beautifully).  She wanted something simple so as not […]

Filed Under: Finishes, Longarm Quilting, Recent Work Tagged With: freemotion quilting, longarm quilting, modern quilt, templates

September 26, 2014 By Mandy 2 Comments

Heads up, Open Slots for longarm quilting

Hi friends, I have a couple of slots in December that just opened up.  If you’re thinking of getting your quilt top finished, please feel free to drop me a note! Happy quilting!

Filed Under: Longarm Quilting

May 25, 2014 By Mandy 1 Comment

A quilt for Memorial Day

Right before Market, I quilted a sweet little thing for Scott Hansen at Blue Nickel Studios.  This quilt is made from the new solids American Made Brand from Clothworks.  Scott wanted something simple and linear that wouldn’t compete with the fabric or the design, an abstract American flag.  We brainstormed a few ideas, and settled on the […]

Filed Under: Finishes, Longarm Quilting

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