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Marie0722

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  1. Once in a while a quilt comes along that is just special. "I Woolly Love Ewe" was one of those, I love the design and the title, and I was thrilled when Wendy asked me to custom quilt it for her. Isn't the black sheep super cute? I am really happy with the way it turned out, and it looks even better now that it is bound and washed. I love the picture Wendy sent me of the finished quilt, the little girl seems to agree with me on the black sheep (I have permission to share this picture online.)
  2. I believe all needle-punched battings have a right and wrong side. You want the quilting needle to pass through the batting the same way the needle went through during the needle-punching process. If you take a close look at your batting you can see which side is which. Sometimes feeling it might be easier. "Dimples up, pimples down" is the way you are supposed to put it on the frame.
  3. I recently finished this quilt for a customer who usually does her own quilting on her domestic machine but thought that this one was too big for her to handle. Aren't the colours just beautiful? She had already drafted most of the feather design for the background, I just added the centre part as it was too much space to be left unquilted and chose the design for the circles. We are both very happy with the way it turned out.
  4. It depends on what you want it for. I don't use it for my bookkeeping, and I gave up on using it for invoicing as it just didn't allow me to tweak the invoices the way I wanted. But I love it as a database to keep track of all my customers, their quilts, my threads and designs etc. I find it easier to use than making up my own spreadsheet and would purchase it again.
  5. Welcome, Maribeth. As for the computer system, I just went through the same process. First you need to know what exactly you want to do with it. Reading the old forum threads is a good place to start but I found I had more questions than answers afterwards. The next step is to watch the basic videos on YouTube. Write down all the questions you have... and trust me, you will have quite a few The majority of people seems to prefer IQ over QuiltPath but I could never really get an answer as to why. I finally ended up contacting Angela Huffman of Quilted Joy because she was the only person I could find who seemed to be really good with both systems. And she was... she answered all my questions in detail, and I have ordered IQ through her. It hasn't arrived yet, so that's all I can tell you right now. Angela assured me I would be able to install it myself, and if I needed help I could just call her, and she'd walk me through. We will see how that goes... I am so excited.
  6. What a cute quilt!! Great job on the quilting, Athina!
  7. http://pumpkinpatchbc.com Mine is Wordpress-based... seemed like the easiest way to do it, especially since I had no clue how to design a website in the first place. One click, and they preinstall it for you if you decide you want to go with Wordpress, and then you can choose a theme and play around until you like the result.
  8. I use Siteground for hosting and highly recommend them. All hosting companies usually give you a great rate for the first year and then it gets more expensive. Technically you could move your site around every year to save money but I am quite happy with them and have decided it's not worth the trouble. I can't remember a time that their servers have ever been down, and their customer service is excellent. They are available through online chat, and they always connect you to a customer service agent within a minute. That's not exaggerated... I have never waited longer than one minute, I don't know how they do it. And all the agents are very friendly and quite knowledgeable. And I am not getting paid to say this... I just really love them
  9. The amount of cluttered information on FB is just overwhelming, and if there is a good search function I haven't found it yet either. I have issues with FB in general. When I signed up years ago, it was a fun place to keep track of what your friends were doing. Now they are just showing you posts from people who pay for it. This is a little exaggerated but mostly accurate. And since I created a page for my business I have been inundated with emails by FB urging me to promote my posts by paying them. My page has more than 100 followers, and if I don't pay maybe 30 people get to see my posts, if I am lucky. So yeah, I stay away from FB as much as I can and come here for help and company.
  10. I have always believed (and still do) that quilting makes the quilt. And when I moved from Europe to Canada and started working at the local quilt shop, I was totally surprised when I found out that most people don't agree with that assessment, that in fact most quilters don't actually like to quilt at all. They just like making the tops. And the quilting is not important to them at all. I love to quilt, and that's why I eventually decided to buy a longarm machine and quilt for others. I would love to add a computer to do the pantos for me because I find them quite boring. But I know that no one would pay me for that, it would have to be a business investment for myself. I custom quilt all my own stuff, and that's what I show at the guild meetings, and that's what brings me customers because they are all in awe of my skills (which are far from perfect, especially compared to what you guys post here but if you can't quilt at all, you might look at things a little differently). But the majority of them stills wants pantographs because it's cheaper.
  11. Please don't hate me for saying this... but I love math I think it's interesting and fun. And I always find it funny when quilters hate math because quilting involves a lot of it. I was lucky and had one teacher who could *really* explain things. There are many math teachers out there who know their math but can't teach at all, and I am convinced that many people who say they hate math would actually like it if they had ever had a good teacher and hadn't had to deal with frustration all the time.
  12. Absolutely fantastic! Very creative, I love all the details, and I love pink but would never have thought of a pink Halloween quilt. Being a breast cancer survivor, this is extra special to me. And yes, I want a bat bra too!
  13. Thanks, Jim and Connie! Yes, I prefer to provide the batting too because then I know what I am working with. But I prefer a lot of things in a different way than other longarm quilters in the area, so I can't always get what I want... too bad, I know I will just keep working on it, and I will definitely find out what brand of batting this was and put it on my no no never list.
  14. No, she didn't prewash any of the fabrics. And I don't know what brand of batting it is. If she bought it at the same store as her backing, then I would assume Hobbs Heirloom. Although it doesn't really feel like it but I have never used the bleached one, so I am not sure. But it is definitely the batting, probably in combination with the quality of the backing, I figured that out in the meantime. I took the quilt off of the frame and did a little sample stitching with her backing and my 80/20 batting. Looks much better. Not perfect but something I could live with. So I guess I will have to call her and see what she wants to do. Unless there is a fix for this problem that I don't know of.
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