Mountain View Quilts

Having a great time so far in Hawaii! Hubby & I are talking a well-deserved vacation for the week.❤️

Another great day at QuiltCon! Wish we had taken more pics. We ran into friends we haven’t seen for awhile & Lisa got back at Christina for yesterday’s scissor stab. 🤣 Then we had a fun get together with the Quilt Pattern Designers FB group (thank you Carolina!) downtown Phoenix at a cool bar/restaurant

Just finished another custom tshirt quilt for a client. Had just enough leftover to make a pillow, too. He’s thrilled!

Sew excited to be going this year! Looking forward to hanging out with friends, quilts, quilty , and so much inspiration. Plus I’m hanging out with my friend/business partner from in warm weather. Lol. If you are going to be there, let me know! I’d love to meet you in person.

Work is done for the day and it’s time to SeW!! Today I’m working on a couple projects for a fabric company. I really need to longarm but my hip has been acting up & I can’t stand very long at one time. Getting old stinks! lol

This week I’m meeting a girlfriend in Greensboro NC for several days. I’m taking a 30 shirts for a custom order tshirt quilt. I can sit & iron on (instead of standing) the interfacing to the shirt backs. Excited to be with my dear friend Rose.

I was getting bored with the limited thread colors and pantograph designs I’ve been using so I treated myself to an order from Hab+Dash and Urban Elementz. So many choices are available from both but I had to limit myself a little bit. 😎 Can’t wait to longarm the 11 quilts in my stash!

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And another quilt on the longarm. Absolutely love this pattern from a kit I got a couple of years ago. I’m having so much fun with the machine.

decided to take a play day! Finished longarming a quilt for a friend & decided to load this one for my hubby (he’s a private pilot). We love vintage aircraft in our house so the fabric is perfect. When I asked him which pantograph he wanted me to use, he chose the airplanes (definitely skill building) over the super easy clouds. Since I’m still adjusting to my machine, I’ll chalk it up to a learning quilt since it’s ours. lol. Thanks honey. 😎🥰

If you know me & my hubby, you’ll know aviation is a big part of our lives. It’s mostly how we met, what I used to do for a hobby (helped produce an airshow in IL), what he does for fun (private pilot) , & what we do on our trips (aviation museums or anything airplanes). So when I saw this fabric by I knew I had to have it!! I altered the pattern a bit to make it bigger since hubby is 6’3”. He has proclaimed it a keeper!

While I was laying on the couch like a slug after oral surgery yesterday, hubby surprised me getting my new (used) longarm set up in one of our spare rooms!!

When there’s a pile of quilts & a dog that prefers to sit in the back seat of the SUV…..

It’s still February & we still are offering 14% off tech editing services, but only through 2/29. As long as we have your pattern by then, you’ll get in on the deal! It’s our ❤️felt thank you for all of the support from past, current, & prospective clients.

While everyone is at QuiltCon, I just bought my neighbor’s Longarm machine!! It took 2 guys, a trailer, doors taken off the basement…. But it’s here. Now to finish emptying outa spare room & get it all back set up in there. ❤️

When did time start going so fast? It’s almost Spring and Easter is coming along for the ride. This week we celebrate renewal, hope, & joy in the Inspiration blog post. Submissions from readers as well as a couple bag patterns are on the post. There’s a freebie pattern from And a couple of patterns with video tutorials. Take a look & support the designers by following them on their journey.

Sat down after a long day of pattern writing & editing. My sweet girl ran over & crawled in my lap. Life is good. ❤️🐶

Well….. so much for sewing during the Super Bowl. Christina’s foot pedal decided it was time to break in her machine when she finally found a little free time to play. Thankfully she can order a new one fairly quickly. Kind of funny timing since this week’s blog post was what to do without a sewing machine. 😎

Have we mentioned we love our clients (past, current, & potential) here at Quilt Pattern Writers? We appreciate each and every one of you. So much so that, in honor of Valentine’s Day, we are offering a 14% tech editing discount through the end of February! No coupon, no keyword, just an automatic discount when you send over your pattern to be tech edited as a thank you for using Quilt Pattern Writers. You can find our tech editing submission form on the website under Services. We look forward to helping you with your patterns! ❤️ ❤