Maybe you have no desire to own any kind of longarm but you do send your tops out to be quilted. What can you do to make sure everything goes smoothly? Remember, everyone is different - all of us longarmers are different, each and every quilt we do is different and each customer [...]

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What Could Go Wrong?
I hope these posts aren’t sounding negative. I love my longarm and have never regretted one minute that I bought it. Well, maybe that first one that I was afraid to use but once I got the hang of it, I love it. I wouldn’t want to talk anyone [...]

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Customers are Here - Now What
Getting the customers is actually fairly easy. Keeping them may prove to be harder.

Keep a calendar and always know when you can do a customer’s quilt and when you will have it back to them. Please, Carol, don’t be reading this! If you tell a [...]

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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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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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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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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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