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INNOVA UK DEALERSHIP
Posted on September 5, 2020 at 6:33 AM |
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I am very pleased to announce that I am now the UK dealer for the sale of the fabulous Innova longarm brand of longarm quilting machines. ABM International is an 80 year old business based in Texas USA and they manufacture not only longarm quilting machines but also the huge manufacturing quilting machines used in commercial applications. Now you are able to buy the machines in POUNDS STERLING ! Ring Janette today for up to date prices. The range of machines start with an 18" freehand machine, 22" freehand machine, 26" freehand machine M20 and M24 new series machines. They can be on a small 5 foot frame width all the way up to 14 feet. All of these machines you can add a choice of two computer systems to. Navigator or Autopilot. More information relating to the machines are available on Innova longarm website. click on the link above M24 with Autopilot available to view/demo at J-Quilts |
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018
Posted on January 1, 2018 at 12:36 PM |
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Happy 2018 to all of my lovely customers It has certainly been a busy year this year and I have quilted lots of my customers beautiful quilts, one big show quilt of my own, and a couple of little projects. A couple of New Years resolutions. Make more time for my personal quilting, and don't leave my show quilt to the last minute. Endeavour to be home on time each night from the studio. Drink more water (that's never going to happen) lose a few pounds (that may not happen either!) and blog more!!! Just before Christmas I was finishing up lots of allover quilting and a few custom quilts. A peak of a couple of the custom jobs which I will detail in another post! Pieced by Amanda WILLIAMS and Julie Smith |
Festival of quilts 2017
Posted on August 27, 2017 at 4:19 PM |
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Stitching in the ditch
Posted on April 23, 2017 at 10:46 AM |
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I often get asked to quilt a quilt ONLY in the ditches, so that the quilting is not visible. This is certainly not the cheapest quilting option, costing more than a general allover quilting design, purely because of the extra time that ruler work takes. Stitching in the ditch on a longarm machine involves the use of acrylic rulers to guide the machine in a straight line which gives much better results than purely freehand moving the machine. This is a skill which takes time to master and thankfully I mastered the ruler skill early on in my quilting career. Now if recent offensive comments towards longarm quilters on a well known U.K. Forum are to be believed then we are actually the spawn of the devil that we dare to quilt a hand pieced quilt! Therefore please do not believe such "opinions" because mostly they are based on lack of knowledge about the longarm quilting process. These two beautiful hand pieced quilts by Cynthia are great examples of the style quilt that suits stitching in the ditch. Although officially there is actually no "ditch" to speak of when there is hand piecing involved, or if the seams have been pressed open, and in these cases I must stitch slightly to one side of the ditch so as not to add stress points to the hand or machine stitching. To stitch in the ditch is much easier when the seams are pressed to one side and the stitching is then stitched on the "low" side of the ditch.
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Quilted jackets
Posted on April 23, 2017 at 6:21 AM |
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I spent Easter bank holiday weekend making myself a quilted jacket after having recently taken an online class on craftsy by Mary Ray. Ever since I started longarm quilting 7 years ago, I have wanted to make myself a jacket after first seeing some made from sweatshirts on the APQS forum when I first started learning how to longarm. So as I had a long weekend to "play" with I decided I would attempt to make one.
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Freehand custom
Posted on April 8, 2017 at 8:46 AM |
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This lovely quilt was pieced by Gill Taylor from scraps of floral fabrics. I have custom quilted it for her freehand on my Innova longarm machine, using curved rulers for the circles, but mainly freehand quilting. I love quilting free form feathers. If you click on the photo it should hopefully make it a larger view. It was a lot of fun to quilt. |
Time flies!
Posted on April 6, 2017 at 9:59 AM |
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I was recently reminded on Facebook that it has been one entire year since buying my Innova longarm machine to add to my arsenal of business equipment here at J-Quilts. In 2015 I had tried out Fereets machine at Sandown and fell in love with it. It just felt right. The right height, the right feel, and of course not to mention the positive reviews in the USA with people switching to Innova. Anyway later on in 2015 I was fortunate (lucky) enough to win best of show with my quilt entered at the festival of quilts. So I waited and put the prize money towards an Innova just before the tax year 2016 was over. Amazing service and three weeks after ordering my lovely machine arrived. I built it myself mainly, with some help from my husband. I'm a "just do it" if I can kind of girl! I'm still loving this machine for my dedicated freehand work machine. |
Marys first place "Vintage Moments" quilt
Posted on August 21, 2016 at 7:51 PM |
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I had the pleasure of custom quilting Mary Telfords beautiful quilt last July, and have been keeping it under wraps until now as we had decided that we would enter it into The Festival of Quilts 2016 which has just taken place last week. Both Mary and I are thrilled to bits, to have taken a first place prize in the Two Person category this year. This is a stunning perfectly pieced quilt made from a pattern by Marshia McCloskey called "Vintage Moments" which I custom quilted for Mary with freehand quilting and ruler work. The lighting was not that great for photographs at the time that I took them, being there after hours this year demoing longarming on the Mettler thread stand, which I will post a separate post about very soon. I promise that I am going to make a conscious effort to update my blog on a weekly basis, as some customers were telling me that they do not do Facebook or Instagram but follow my blog, but if you want to catch up with my latest quilts, then head over to my facebook page J-Quilts longarm quilting or my Instagram page j_quilts where I share lots of photos on a regular basis. "Vintage Moments" pieced and bound by Mary Telford, custom freehand quilted by Janette Chilver. First place FOQ2016 Two person category |
Beryls custom quilted star quilt
Posted on June 1, 2016 at 5:16 PM |
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I know - its been a while !! I have so many quilts to share with you, yet so little time to write my blog. If you want to keep up with what I have been up to then please find me on facebook J-Quilts or on instagram j_quilts as I find it much quicker to load and share photos there. This quilt has been made by Beryl and has been beatifully made, I have custom quilted it freehand on my new innova machine (thats another post watch this space !) with continuous curves and feathers. It was 23 hours of quilting for this one, it was difficult to give it back though ! |
The most exquisite applique I have ever seen
Posted on November 1, 2015 at 5:52 PM |
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There are almost no words to describe this elegant quilt. The hand applique and machine piecing has been excellently performed by Muriel Fitch, and I have freehand quilted it with background fills and feathers. I am so pleased with the results, and Muriel was too. The pattern is by Shirley Bloomfield, and the applique is the most perfect I have ever seen ! Amazing. I hated giving this one back ! If only I had the hand applique skills needed to recreate this masterpiece. |
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