I'm a professional longarmer. I don't take quilts from people who say "Do whatever you want."
I call myself a collaborative quilter. The quiltmaker meets with me and either tells me what she wants, or I help her to find what she wants done to finish her quilt.
I offer different quilting options and we look at how each will look. We discuss how her quilt will be used, how much quilting she wants on it, how dense it should be. I draw the patterns on clear vinyl and we lay this over the quilt so she can see what it will look like when the design is quilted.
I offer 108 colors of thread, 60 different pantograph patterns, and hundreds of freehand and custom options. I want my client to design the quilting and work with me to make sure she will be happy with the finished product.
It needs to please her, not me! My goal is not to finish a quilt that I think is beautiful. It's to finish a quilt that the quiltmaker will think is beautiful.
She is the quilt's mother. I am the nanny for a short time.