I also specialize in custom quilts. If you have collected vintage embroidery from your mother or grandmother, or if you have pieced a quilt top and want it quilted, I can make your dream quilt a reality. Here are several photos of quilts I have made for my customers. They range from vintage embroidered squares in the center of the blue quilt featured, to shades of lavender and green (another customer's preference). The latter customer gave me "free rein" to interpret whatever style would work best with those colors.

I can also provide materials for your quilt. I do prefer to provide my own quilt batting, as I have used Warm & White brand batting for over 10 years. Warm & White is a blend of mostly cotton & a very small amount of polyester batting, which is very thin but it "breathes" no matter what season you use your quilt.

In a nutshell, here are my current prices for quilt materials (as of 4/21/12):

Warm & White 90" wide quilt batting: $12.25/yard
Moda Marbles, 44/45" wide, 100% cotton fabric: $10.95/yard
Moda 200-Thread Count Bleached or Unbleached Muslin, 90" wide: $11.95/yard

My customers like the idea of choosing fabrics here at the studio, as it does simplify things quite a bit.

As you have probably heard, the cotton industry is going through some major changes at this time. If my suppliers adjust their prices the next time I place an order, I will update the information here as well.

As far as my quilting labor fees to make your quilt, my fees -- which merely give you a ball park idea -- are ESTIMATES ONLY -- without being given any specific quilt plans are as follows:

Baby Quilts (approx. 48" square) depending on just what you want featured in the quilt: $100-$200

Twin-size bed quilt, 65"W x 88"L (13" drop, to be used with a dust ruffle and does not cover the bed pillows): $225 and up

Standard bed quilt, 80"W x 88"L (13" drop, to be used with a dust ruffle and does not cover the bed pillows): $375 and up

Queen-size bed quilt, 86"W x 93"L (13" drop, to be used with a dust ruffle and does not cover the bed pillows): $475 and up

King-size bed quilt, 104"W x 93"L (13" drop, to be used with a dust ruffle and does not cover the bed pillows): $625 and up

Materials (batting, backing & any quilt top fabrics, along with binding fabric), if I provide them, will be in addition to my labor as listed above.

If you want me to apply your quilt binding by hand, check with me for details as to pricing.

I was honored to create a newborn's custom quilt, which features the baby's name in large embroidered letters for the center of the quilt top. I added the footprints beneath the name, because, as you can see on the reverse side, the scrubs top, which the baby's father wore when he was born, also includes the baby's footprints. I embroidered the baby's name, birthdate, weight, height, etc. on the other side of the scrubs top. This way, I was able to incorporate the scrubs top as the quilt label itself. The quilt was featured at the newborn's baptism this past January, 2011.

I was asked to create three childrens' camo quilts, which were made from their uncle's 2 military-issued camo suits. I cut up the suits, added some additional fabrics from my inventory, and I even added the patch pocket to the back side of each of the 3 quilts. I removed the buttons from each large pocket and replaced the closure with velcro. Each nephew & niece will be able to put their keepsakes in the pocket. Their grandmother's idea was to add the loop at the top corner, so each child would be able to grab their quilt off of the wall peg. The squares each measure 10"; I placed fabrics in an improvised checkerboard pattern. I embroidered each grandchild's first name on the corner squares, so each one knows whose quilt is whose. The uniform's labels were also sewn on the embroidered name squares. These are truly keepsake quilts!

Twisted Sisters Quilt, queen size, finished in April, 2010. Reproduction fabrics were used for the quilt top, binding and backing. An overall meandering stitch was quilted on the quilt top; a butterly design was used in the wide borders. Here are closeups of the border, individual square and a general view of the quilt top. Matching pillow cases were also made to be used with the bed quilt.

This is what I call the "M" Quilt. The customer had cut out the center diamond and wanted the largest "M" I could digitize for the center. The "M" ended up being 12" tall by 8" wide. This was one of my most challenging requests. The digitizing didn't take that long to accomplish, but the stitchout took approximately 4-1/2 hours... 225,000 stitches! The customer then took the finished center diamond and finished piecing the quilt. I have photos showing both the center and the finished quilt. The lady's granddaughter was thrilled to receive her quilt!