Services and Products
There is a style of quilting for every type of quilt and every budget. My personal preference, regardless of the level of quilting, is to select designs that will highlight your piecing. This means using a thread that blends with your fabric colours. It also means selecting patterns that will create a complementary texture if you choose an edge to edge design, or highlight intricate piecing or negative space, if you request custom quilting. I have plenty of experience choosing designs, and am happy to make suggestions and collaborate on a quilting plan with you, let you leave it completely with me, or quilt out any vision/pattern you already have in mind.
If you are like me, you like to know prices before you ever interact with an actual human. To figure out price of quilting, multiply the length or the top by the width of the top. This will tell you your total square inches. Next multiply the total square inches by the cost per square inch to get the final price. The price of binding is calculated per linear inch. That mean adding up the total inches of all four sides, and multiplying that number by $0.25, or $0.50.
NOTE: *Minimum $50 charge. If backs need to be seamed, the cost is $25/seam. Any labour outside of the services outlined below costs $25/hour.
*Taxes and shipping NOT included in below prices, and calculated at time of invoicing. *All prices are in Canadian Dollars.
Timeframe
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A Note to American Quilters
Did you know that Canadian Longarmers generally charge the same rates as our American counterparts? I’m sure you know what that means! Depending on the exchange rate, you get an automatic ~30% discount if you send your quilt to Canada to be quilted!
$20/m to
$25/m
If both length and width of your quilt are greater than 95”, king sized batting, at $25/m will be required.
Heirloom® Premium 80/20 Cotton Blend Batting
Heirloom® Premium Cotton Blend is made from 80% long staple cotton fibers and 20% fine polyester. This combination of fibers creates a strong, longwearing batt and is very easy to handle.
The batting is lightly needle punched and treated with a soft resin to provide stability to the fibers and prevent the polyester from bearding. This process makes Heirloom® Cotton Blend Batting uniquely easy to quilt by hand.
$0.005/sq. inch
Thread Basting for Machine and Hand Quilting
If you want to hand or machine quilt your own quilt, you can treat yourself to this service. Using my large quilting frame and channel locks, I am able to square up your top for you, as well as secure it with a large stipple meander at 1 to 3 stitches per inch. This means that you can hoop, scrunch, stitch and generally manhandle your quilt without worrying about the layers shifting. The stitches slide out easily whenever you decide, by a quick snip and scoop of the finger tip.
Please note the minimum charge for all quilting, including basting, is $50.
$0.025/sq. inch
Computerized Edge to Edge Quilting - Basic Meandering
Sometimes a quilt needs the lightest touch, and to be held together in the simplest style, at the lowest price point.
This small selection of designs compliment nearly every quilt.
$0.03/sq. inch
Computerized Edge to Edge Quilting - Intermediate & Intricate
From open and light, to intricate and dense, quilting designs can create a gorgeous texture on any quilt that will let the piecing be the star. There are many luscious modern geometric designs, or traditional patterns (baptist fans, or scallops) that add lovely consistency and drape to a quilt. I use a blending colour of thread, and can adjust the density of the design to suit your style.
$0.10 - $0.15/sq. inch
Hand Guided & Computerized Custom Quilting
Custom quilting adds another layer of design to your quilt. I take into account your piecing, the prints in the fabric, and your preferences, to create a design completely unique to your quilt that will move the eye across the quilt naturally and create secondary designs. All of this quilting is done in a blending thread, and with motifs that compliment the piecing, rather that compete with it.
$0.25 - $0.50/linear inch
Machine or Hand Sewn Binding
Did you know that you can send your quilt top and backing to me, and receive a completely finished quilt in return?! Yep! If you provide the necessary length of 2.5” wide binding strips, prepared and joined in your favourite fashion, I offer two binding options.
I can sew the binding to both the front and back of the quilt COMPLETELY BY MACHINE, using a blending thread. Machine stitching will be visible on the front of the quilt. The cost of this service is $0.25/linear inch. Please note, my method of machine binding will result in binding covering approximately a half to 3/4 inch of the sides of the quilt top. Before choosing this option, consider whether any of your points end within this range, and if you will mind losing them.
I can attach the binding to the quilt by machine, and use a hidden slip stitch, SEWN BY HAND to the secure the binding to the reverse of the quilt, using a blending thread. Stitches will be barely visible. The cost of this service is $0.50/linear inch.
If you prefer that I construct the binding, straight of grain, from fabric you supply, or from the excess backing fabric, there will be an additional $25 charge.
Fee determined upon consultation
Quilt Rescue / Completion / Collaboration
Sometimes we run into road blocks that keep a project from being done, or get big artistic ideas that we need help to realize. I am here to get creative and help you out! Some examples of rescue circumstances are quilts that are partially hand or machine quilted, or quilts with damaged, or inadequate stitching.
I have also collaborated with quilters eager to combine machine and hand quilting, out of necessity or creativity. If I stitch out a geometric design, could you add to the design with Big Stitch quilting? Have you hand quilted a quilt, like the one above by Marilyn M, but need a machine to stitch through layers of fusible web?
Gift Certificates Available
Give the Gift of Quilting!
Do you have a quilter in your life that would appreciate the gift of longarm quilting? This secure site will allow you to select a pretty digital gift card for any amount of non-refundable credit that will never expire. It will be sent directly to the recipients email address, immediately, or at a specified later date, along with any message you chose to include. The recipient will be able to enter the Gift Certificate number into the Quilt Submission Form to redeem its value.