Good Golly Miss Molly

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Just as flowers have special meanings, so do names. One way to make a gift special is to add information about the meaning of someone's name.

This customer had us make a custom double wedding ring for her best friend and wanted it to be "extra" special. Besides picking fabrics that matched her bedroom decor, we added the meaning behind the bride and grooms' names printed on fabric next to each other in the custom quilt center.

Since the friend was a bridesmaid, we also had inside information about the wedding flowers, which we custom embroidered on each of the custom quilt corners. Any one of these would be a great way to customize a quilt; this one had lots of personal touches from the bride's best friend!

Charlotte

Once Upon a Time Custom Quilt

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Every custom quilt has a story. It's one of the reasons why I love quilt shows. Besides being inspired by beautiful work, I love to read the back story of why the custom quilt was made. This was one of the custom quilts at our last local quilt guild show, made for the quilter's little daughter.

As a former little girl, I thought the quilter did a nice job of capturing the basic elements in a princess fairy tale. And this, boys and girls, is how a custom quilt becomes a wall hanging and lives happily ever after.

Charlotte

Note to Mom in Custom Made to Order Quilt

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One of our custom made to order quilt orders included this well-worn card.
The customer insisted the card needed to be printed on fabric and placed in the center of the custom quilt.
This is inspiration for all of our customers who want suggestions on what to embroider on a quilt for their Mom besides "thanks, Mom!"

Charlotte

Modern Version of Friendship Quilt

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Many decades ago, friendship quilts were very popular. Each friend would make a pre-determined block and add their name. The blocks would then be sewn together to form the gift quilt.

I love this friendship quilt made recently by an area nursing home. Each block was hand-embroidered with a friend's name and an embellishment like a flower and the name of each corporate sponsor. It was auctioned off as a fundraiser for the nursing facility.

Friendly thing to do, don't you think?

Charlotte

A Woman and Her Horses

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Teresa loves horses.
She designed this original quilt for herself featuring 20 different embroidered horses in country colors. One of our returning customers saw it and after buying a quilt for her daughter, ordered a horse quilt for herself. Can you see how the plaid and blue denim corners suggest horse shoes? The red bandana is a nod to country living. We call this custom quilt "Teresa's Horses."

Charlotte

Ribbons Finish Custom Clothing Quilt

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It really is all in the details.
When we make made to order custom quilts out of clothing, we take off buttons and other embellishments so we can add them back when the quilting is completed.

One quilt had a number of ribbons. This little spider seemed to come back to life when we added back the orange with black pocka dot ribbon!

Charlotte

Why Custom Quilts Take Time

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The site visitor was charming on the phone, calling before 6 am to ask if she paid us a "rush" fee, could we get a custom quilt started and finished for her in a week.
It wasn't that we didn't want to help but making a double wedding ring quilt, one of the hardest patchwork quilt designs, in a week is just not possible. It takes an average of 4 specialists to make one quilt, and we get them made in as little as 3 months - less if the quilt is simpler. "So how come I read some people can make a quilt in a week" she persisted.
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Recycle T-Shirts Into Quilts

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We all have them, too many favorite thirst we can't bear to toss.
T-shirts can easily be made into custom t-shirt quilts, preserving those logos and favorite sayings. We stabilize the shirts so they don't stretch, then sew them together in blocks.

Machine quilting keeps layers together and makes the quilt easy to wash and dry. If you keep the same design on both sides, you can also have the quilt backing made of similar-sized blocks as the t-shirts.

Charlotte

 

 

Nuts About This Crazy Quilt

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I am crazy over this brand new crazy quilt top from one of my talented piecing artists.

Look closely at it, she’s incorporated not only fabric remnants from other projects but the teeniest tiniest fabric pieces. And she says she does this to relax! I love Victorian crazy quilts. I even have one from 1910 hanging in my den but these teeny tiny pieces would drive me – well, you know.

Charlotte