Customers - How to Get Them

You’ve made the decision to buy the machine and it’s now taking up half the square footage in your home. You’ve practiced til you think you could win Best of Show. You have all the necessary neighborhood, city, county, state and federal authorities satisfied and you now [...]

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Green seems to be the color of the day! In the last picture I posted, Chad had on a green shirt, standing against a green wall and now I’ve gotten all 400 of my little green squares sewn together. Step 1 on my quilt is done!
I do not like naming quilts and have [...]

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Don’t ask me why but Chad loves to dress up. He goes to school dressed like this half the time. I sure hope he marries a rich young lady who can keep him dressed the way he likes to dress!
You gotta say he’s pretty cute, isn’t he?
Judy L.

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The Machine is Here!
What do you do now? If the machine was purchased new, you probably were offered free lessons. Take advantage of those. No matter how much you learn, once you’re alone with the machine, it’s a scary place to be! I can remember wishing there was some way to [...]

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Who has sewing plans for the weekend? I do! I do! I think there are enough football games on TV to keep Vince occupied, at least on Saturday. Cincinnati Chili is simmering. Something about Fall and football and Vince wants Cincinnati Chili every Saturday.
I have a plan for the [...]

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Vince has been asking me to take his car to Joplin to get the oil changed. The Toyota dealer there gives free oil changes for life. I’ll be they had no idea how long we keep vehicles when they made that deal. But, what’s “free” if you have to drive 70 miles each [...]

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Longarming as a Business
Thankfully for those of us who do longarming as a business, not everyone will want to do their own quilting and among those who do, not all of them will want to quilt for others. Once you’ve determined that you want to do longarm quilting as a business, a few considerations [...]

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Thanks so much to all of you who take the time to leave comments or write me. I sat last night and wrote out 5 future blog posts regarding longarm quilting and will probably write several more before I’m done. I’ll try to post one each day for a while.
While I don’t maintain [...]

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Is a Longarm for Me?

My first “longarm”, which was actually a shortarm machine, was purchased almost 10 years ago. That’s my actual first machine in the picture. During my next few blog posts, when I talk about “longarm” machines, I’m throwing in shortarms, midarms and longarms. Things have changed so much in [...]

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You’d think that with me being such a chicken, I’d close my blinds at dark but I don’t. When we’re sitting in our upstairs family room, someone could look through the dining room window on the front side of the house and see almost straight into the family room. I could close these [...]

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