So,
sometimes the bobbin thread on the long arm quilter screws up and I end
up spending HOURS ripping out stitches. You can contort yourself around
and crawl under the machine with a flashlight to periodically look at
the stitches if you have fully functioning knees--I don't. Or you can
spend $490 to buy a camera to attach to the underside of the quilting
machine.
OR
You can do some Annie-ized hillbilly
DYI thing and buy a wifi endoscope camera for less than $50, zip tie it
to a dowel and viola, under quilt camera.
The potential for Høme endoscopy procedures is a bonus.
AnnMade, LLC
About the stuff Annie makes and sometimes sells--longarm quilting services, tapestry and bead bracelets, weaving, soap, and other stuff.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
AnnMade Quilting Prices 5/2016
AnnMade
Quilting Prices
Effective November, 2019
Minimum Charge $35.00,
regardless of size
Measuring your quilt top: Quilting is priced per square inch based on
the dimensions of your quilt top. This
is figured by multiplying the length of the quilt top by the width. For example, a quilt measuring 80 inches by
100 inches will be 8,000 square inches.
Price per square inch: Base
price is $.013 per square inch for a basic edge-to-edge design, usually
stippling, which is stitching that meanders over the surface of the quilt.
Using the above example, 80
inches x 100, the price for quilting would be $104.00 (8000 x .013)
-- Other edge-to-edge designs
are available and price will depend on the density of the quilting and the
complexity of the design.
-- Freehand custom quilt
designs are also priced per square inch, depending on the density and
complexity of the design.
-- When we meet to discuss
your quilt, we will agree on a design, color of thread and a price.
Backing fabric and batting:
-- Size: backing and batting must be a minimum of 4” larger than your quilt
top on all 4 sides. That’s 8 inches longer (4” top and 4” bottom)
and 8 inches wider (4” each side) than your quilt top.
-- Backing fabric: please supply backing fabric
for your quilt, regular quilting cotton or flannel are appropriate
fabrics. Please do not use bed
sheets. There will be an additional
charge if backing fabric must be ironed or squared up, if it must be pieced by me, or if it's not long/wide enough.
-- Batting: please supply batting for
your quilt, I prefer Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 batting. If you have a different type of batting, we
can discuss that.
Binding: Quilting price does not include binding. If you can piece a quilt top, you can bind it
yourself. It’s not that hard and it’s
satisfying to put the final touch on your completed quilt. There are many tutorials to teach you to do
this.
I can sew a prepared
binding to the front of your quilt to be completed by you. There is an additional cost for my preparation
of the binding and for applying the binding.
But really, you should do it yourself!
Contact Info: Annie Schneider 918-630-5197;
annmadeOK@gmail.com
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Quilted Blessings
I am associated with a fabulous group of women at Christ the King Parish in Tulsa, Oklahoma: King's Quilters and Crafters. We make handmade gifts for the young children of the parish to hand out on the Feast of St. Nicholas in December and we make quilted gift bags for the shut ins of the parish. But mostly, we make baby quilts and blankets.
This year we made 94 baby quilts and blankets and over 80 baby hats to be distributed to Madonna House and Birthright and the Neonatal ICU at St. John Medical Center. The items were all blessed at the Mother's Day masses. Here are some photos of what they looked like displayed in the Sanctuary.
Many hands made light work in making the quilts and setting up the display |
Here's some detail of one I quilted, but did not piece |
Who's Quilting Now?
After literally
YEARS of snarling at the influx of quilting fabric overtaking the
garment fabric available at the fabric stores and harrumphing (how do
you spell that anyway?) about those craft sewers, a few years
ago I consented to sewing a few straight lines of quarter inch seam
allowance to make some baby quilts for charity. All the while
proclaiming that I AM NOT A QUILTER, I stealthily collected a few
cheerful bits of cotton fabric that might be nice accompaniments to the
donated fabric used by our group, King's Quilters and Crafters at
Christ the King Parish in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Can you guess where this is going?
So, I rocked along making a few baby quilts a year. I made a few aprons for gifts. I practiced quilting by making place mats for the kitchen table. (OK, the place mat drawer might be overflowing and there might be some cloth napkins involved). And then, as things tend to do, somehow things sort of got out of control...
the workroom got cleaned up
shelves were rearranged and moved
the big loom was slid across the room to make space
Kelly wrote a big check
and
Longarm quilting machine happened, that's what. 12 foot long table happened, that's what. Her name is Gertrude, that's what.
9 baby quilts done by me and 6 more quilted for others, that's what.
I guess I am a quilter after all.
My new business is AnnMade, LLC. I'll be quilting for fun and profit in my spare
time soon. Hopefully, you'll have me quilt for you. (annmadeOK at gmail dot com)
In the meantime, I'm upstairs in the workroom playing with
thread and moving my now sizeable stash of fabric from pile to pile
trying to decide how best to use it up. Or maybe I'll just go buy more fabric, because God might stop making cotton, and then where would we crafty sewer quilters be?
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