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Other than pricing, the question I get most often is “What is your turnaround time?” Invariably, the second question is “How long does it take to make a quilt?” That’s a loaded question that is almost impossible to quantify due to the different steps being done at different times and the variables as to type…
Read MoreI just finished all of the Christmas t-shirt quilts for customers! I usually try to get done before the 20th and I cut it close this year. I also did several Crown Royal quilts that people ordered for Christmas gifts this year. One customer brought me a new kind of Crown Royal bag that I…
Read MoreI make a lot of quilts out of Crown Royal bags for people who have collected them. They make really nice Christmas gifts or Father’s Day gifts. Most people are familiar with the purple bags, but Crown Royal makes some specialty whisky and they use different colored bags for those. If someone includes specialty bags…
Read MoreThe much anticipated Houston International Quilt Festival has come and gone. It is always amazing and overwhelming at the same time. My friend Jody and I had to take a picture by the huge sewing machine. We thought about sending it to our husbands and telling them it was the new sewing machine we just…
Read MoreAfter a very long summer which kind of left me with the doldrums, we finally have some fall weather. It is only in the sixties here after being ninety yesterday. I’m always in a quilting mood, but the cooler weather just makes me even more into it. And with cooler weather, or even sometimes not…
Read MoreAfter Hurricane Harvey, we were forced to remodel our house whether it needed it before Harvey or not. Actually, it did need some updating. We had our house repaired and redecorated in record time, but it took a while to get a new quilt made for our master bedroom. I finally got it finished and…
Read MoreI recently bought an embroidery machine so I no longer have to send out embroidery to be done. Sometimes customers want names and dates or other lettering embroidered in a square or in the top or bottom border and I can offer that service in-house now. My set-up price is $15 and that includes up…
Read MoreWow….I haven’t written a blog in nearly a month. But I do have a good excuse. My fellow elf (my husband) and I have been working overtime trying to get all the Christmas t-shirt quilts done in time for gift giving. A couple more people have to come by to pick up quilts, but other…
Read MoreAs someone who works in a home studio with just my husband (which is not a bad thing), I enjoy meeting and talking to customers. Some of them have interesting stories and because I do memory quilts, some of them have sad stories. I had an experience this week that made me think that sometimes…
Read MoreWell, another year of Quilt Market and Festival have passed in somewhat of a blur this year. With the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and the Houston Astros winning the World Series, I was somewhat distracted. And takes an awful lot to get me distracted from anything quilt related. The good news (besides the Astros winning)…
Read MoreI really wish I could quit talking about Hurricane Harvey and the resulting flood, but it’s still very much a part of my daily life. The house repairs still aren’t completed, but my studio looks really nice, so I thought I would share some pictures. We’re working steadily to get all the Christmas T-shirt quilt…
Read MoreAs mentioned in previous posts, Hurricane Harvey did a number on us with his torrential rains that flooded our house. We had so much to do and so many decisions to make that I didn’t get to sew a whole lot, but I was finally getting back in the groove when the date arrived for…
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