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Why Does It Take So Long to Make a Quilt?

November 19, 2019
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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…

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A Different Crown Royal Quilt

December 21, 2018
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I 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…

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Specialty Crown Royal Bags in Quilts

November 29, 2018
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I 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…

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Quilt Festival 2018

November 22, 2018
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The 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…

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Order Christmas Quilts Now…..Summer is Over!

October 15, 2018
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After 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…

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A Quilt for Myself…..Finally

August 31, 2018
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After 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…

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Embroidery for Your Quilt

July 11, 2018
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I 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…

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The Christmas Elves Are Done for the Year

December 22, 2017
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Wow….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…

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Why I Love Quilting for Others

November 20, 2017
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As 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…

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Christmas T-Shirt Quilts

November 14, 2017
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Well, 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)…

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Studio Update after Hurricane Harvey

October 30, 2017
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I 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…

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Having Quilting Withdrawals

October 15, 2017
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As 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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Take a look at our Gallery to see examples of the T-Shirt Quilts as well as few of the many other quilts we have made.

I started making quilts as a child and have been quilting for others for over twenty years. Quilts that I have quilted have been featured in several quilting books and magazines.