Archive for January 1st, 2010

Its a New Year!

Welcome to my blog. No new year’s resolutions per se, but would like to invite you to read my thoughts, ideas, projects and hints relating to the world of quilting and machine embroidery.

First a bit about me. I am the proud owner of Thread Bear Quilting & Embroidery located in Southeast Michigan. I provide longarm quilting services using my Statler Stitcher and also create customized quilt labels with machine embroidery. I hope you will stop by my website often to see previews of customer quilts, pricing, and information you can use if you want me to work on one of your quilts.  My motto is “I will treat your quilt as if it were my own!”

My current project is finishing up a quilt for which the top has been completed for several years. If you like it, its from a book called “Home for the Holidays” by Mulligan and Smith. You will find that my two favorite colors are purple and green so this quilt really called to me the minute I saw the pattern. This holiday week seemed the perfect time to get the quilt on my longarm and start quilting it. It helped that I’m between customers so don’t have guilt feelings about working on one of my own babies.

The quilting is going to include a lot of flowers and tons of thistles (I’m also somewhat crazy about them — goes with the green/purple thing I guess).  Mulligan/Smith call the pattern “Christmas Pickle”, but I call it my “garden quilt”.  It doesn’t seem very Christmas-y to me.

I look forward to sharing more ideas throughout the year.

Best of quilting in the new year!

–Kathy Koch