This is a note to everyone who is considering having a quilt done by a LA quilter. I am sorry that there are some LA quilters that do not have the experience to please customers or simply want the money to pay for their machine and do not truly care.
I have been doing longarm quilting as a busines for over 10 years and I have never had a complaint about my quilting. That may sound like bragging but I am proud of that fact.
Before I started quilting for others I spent several months (that is correct months, not days or weeks) teaching myself how to use my machine because I did not want to mess up someones quilt.
Now even though I have been doing this for years anytime I have a new customer I spend time showing them samples of my work. I have quilts of various sizes, throw, twin, full and queen with a variety of quilting techniques. I feel this is essential if they are going to trust me with there quilt.
If someone has no full size samples to show you then you cannot see the quality of her/his work. At that point I would say "NO THANKS, I need to see some of your quilts before I trust you with mine. I am sorry but a little wall hanging with lots of stitching does not qualify as a proper sample of what someone can do on an actual quilt.
I have one lady, now a loyal customer for at least 5 years, the first quilt she had done by someone who called herself a LA quilter was a disaster. The top was full of puckers and I won't mention the mess of the back. The long and short is I said if she took it apart I would quilt it correctly and if she wasn't happy it would be a freebie. But as I said she is now a loyal customer and she has sent me other work but I am sure she never recommended the first person.
Sorry if this has gotten way too long but I think everyone needs to know there are good and bad LA quilters. It's the old saying someone has to graduate at the bottom of the class.
Longarm