Guildford Heritage Market
Artistic Quilting will be at the Guildford Heritage Market on March 29 2015 from 9.00am-3.00pm where we will have an extensive range of patchwork quilts and quilted products plus original artwork and recycled jarrah photo/memorabilia boxes. Additionally a few items of bric-a-brac will be available.
read moreChanges to Weekend Markets
We apologize to our regular customers at the Old Perth Road Market Bassendean. Due to changes by the organisers our last Bassendean Market for 2013 will be on Sunday 24 November. The next market will be on Sunday 30 April 2014. We hope to find another venue in the meantime and will advise via this page. We will be attending the Guildford Heritage Market on March 30 2014 in the park opposite the Post Office. We hope to see regular and new customers on the day.
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Artistic Quilting offers a computerized long arm quilting service using our state of the art equipment and software to specialize in quick turnaround edge to edge quilting. All work is carried out to the highest standard to ensure maximum durability. We provide a Fabric Die Cutting Service to help you turn your scraps into patchwork We can also make quilts to your specifications and colour scheme, in any style and size, to a maximum of 3 metres in width and up to 15 metres in length. These include memory, photo and T shirt quilts. Situated...
read moreJoining Backing Fabric for your quilt
If you have to join your backing fabric for any reason, the seam should be half an inch wide and pressed open. Always remove the selvages both in the seam and the outer edges as these do not stretch to the same degree as cut fabric and may cause problems keeping it flat while quilting resulting small tucks forming. If you piece the entire backing for your quilt with different fabrics or into a pattern, it is not possible to guarantee that this piecing will be central on your quilt top. The reason for this is because, unlike quilting on a...
read moreAlways Butt Seam your Wadding
If it is necessary to join your wadding use the joining stitch most modern sewing machines have. Cut the two edges to be joined as straight as possible, then butt them together under the foot of your machine. Feed both sides through at the same rate making sure there’s no gap and the stitch will traverse the middle from side to side making a nice flat join. Make sure you don’t allow the edges to overlap as this will cause a ridge in your top when it’s quilted. Wadding, properly joined can be made up to any size without...
read moreQuilt Tops Ready For Submission
When submitting your well pressed quilt tops, wadding and backing for quilting, please ensure the wadding and backing are exactly 8 inches (20cm) larger than the quilt top. So if your quilt top is 60″ your wadding and backing must be 68″. Try to make your quilt top as square as possible for best results. Check the opposite vertical and horizontal edge measurements of all components to ensure they are the same in each individual piece and that the corners are 90 degrees. For long arm quilting it is necessary to have straight...
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