Offering longarm quilting services. A longarm quilter takes a completed quilt top and machine quilts the quilt top, batting and backing fabric.
Free custom label with each quilt!
I began quilting in 1986 when I received some quilt tops that my husband's grandmother had left. I soon began making my own quilt tops and hand quilted them for 10 years. I love all forms of quilting, from piecing to applique and have experimented with many different styles over the years. Like most quilters, I soon had more quilt tops than I could ever hand quilt so I took my first machine quilting class and quilted on my domestic sewing machine for a while. I finally purchased my Gammill Optimum Plus longarm machine and started quilting tops for other people.
I have excellent technical skills and continue my longarm quilting education by taking classes from experts in the field such as Linda V. Taylor, Sharon Schamber, Pam Clarke, Diane Gaudynski, Deloa Jones, Linda McCuean, Lora Rocke, Carol Selepec, Sally Terry,Anne Bright, Karen McTavish, Renea Haddadin, Dawn Cavanaugh and Nichole Webb. I do free form all over designs, pantograph designs ( a.k.a edge-to-edge and all over) and custom quilting. I have over 1,500 patterns to choose from and I also freeform quilt. I especially like creating patterns from the designs in the fabric used in the quilt tops. I keep current on trends by attending local and national quilt shows. I am a member of the American Quilter's Society, the International Machine Quilter's Association, the International Quilt Association, the American Quilt Study Group, the Professional Longarm Quilter's Guild, and the Trinity Valley Quilt Guild in Ft. Worth, Texas.
I hope you will consider me as a partner with you in finishing your quilt top.
Gone to Texas: Quilts from a Pioneer Woman's Journal
by Betsy Chutchian
More than 150 years ago a pioneer family left a sign on their Kentucky door reading "Gone to Texas."
As did so many of their generation, Robert and Lizzie Carpenter packed up their belongings and headed West to find a better life. They chose the North Central Texas prairie to set up housekeeping. And, it was here, on their newly built homestead, that Lizzie began writing her journal, which she kept from 1857 to 1882. Chronicled within its pages are the details of pioneer life - including her deep love for quiltmaking.
In 2007, Lizzi's great-great granddaughter and award winning quiltmaker and historian, Betsy Chutchian, discovered the journal, now housed at Haggard Library in Plano, Texas, and was delighted to discover they shared a common passion for quiltmaking.
