Drop - Off Dates - Summer 2025 Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Fabadashery Longarm Quilting will be taking a break over the summer.  I will be back in September 2025, so please get in touch to arrange a drop-off date for your quilt then.

May - June 2025 Drop-Off Dates - Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Here are some dates for dropping off your quilts for longarming at Fabadashery Longarm Quilting in May and June. Contact frances@fabadashery.co.uk

Tuesday 27th May
Wednesday 28th May (PM only)
Thursday 29th May
Friday 30th May
Monday 2nd June
Tuesday 3rd June
Wednesday 4th June (PM only)
Thursday 5th June
Friday 6th June
Tuesday 17th June
Wednesday 18th June (PM only)
Thursday 19th June
Friday 20th June
Monday 23rd June - Talk, Beechwood Quilters, Newport
Tuesday 24th June
Wednesday 25th June (PM only)
Thursday 26th June
Friday 27th June

April 2025 - Drop-Off Dates Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Here are some dates that I will be taking in quilts throughout April 2025.  If you are travelling to Wales for a holiday over the Easter holidays and want to drop off a quilt, get in touch and I will see what I can do. Also I am out and about doing a couple of talks in April - see dates below
Contact : frances@fabadashery.co.uk. Tel: 01291 629120

Wednesday 2nd April
Thursday 3rd April
Monday 7th April (AM only)
Tuesday 8th April
Wednesday 9th April (AM only)
Friday 11th April (AM  only)
Monday 14th April
Tuesday 15th April - talk Isbourne Quilters
Wednesday 16th April - talk Leominster Quilters
Thursday 17th April
Tuesday 22nd April
Wednesday 23rd April
Thursday 24th April
Friday 25th April
Monday 28th April
Tuesday 29th April
Wednesday 30th April
 

Sue's Recycled Checked Shirt Quilt

Sue's Recycled Shirt Quilt

There are many, many beautiful quilt fabrics on the market, but sometimes they just can't beat the feel and look of a recycled shirt quilt.  Sue was inspired to make her first ever quilt from a collection of special checked shirts.  With recycled fabrics, you have to improvise with what is in front of you, but once they become a quilt the transformation can be amazing.

Sue's Recycled Checked Shirt Quilt

On this occasion, Sue chose an up-to-date design, Modern Curves designed by Anita Shackleford, which took the quilt to another level.  Sue also took advantage of Fabadashery Longarm Quilting's binding service to help finish off her project. A very special quilt - and I think there is another in the pipeline!

'Modern Curves' designed by Anita Shackelford

March 2025 Drop-Off Dates - Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

 

If your quilt top is ready for quilting, here are some dates I am taking in quilt in March 2025
Monday 3rd March
Tuesday 11th March
Thursday 13th March
Friday 14th March
Monday 17th March
Tuesday 18th March
Tuesday 25th March
Thursday 27th March
Friday 28th March
Monday 31st March
Tuesday 1st April

Drop me an email at frances@fabadashery.co.uk

Natalie's Feed Sack Quilt

Natalie's Feed Sack Quilt

Today I am sharing Natalie's Feedsack Quilt.  Natalie collected some original Feedsack prints and has incorporated them into several of her quilts. Feedsack Quilts? If you want to find out more there is a great little article at Heritage House Quilts website, which explains how printed feedsacks carrying dry goods became a popular marketing idea.

Natalie's Feed Sack Quilt

Again, the main purpose of the quilt was to highlight the historical fabrics, so just a simple, low key quilting pattern was required - Popcorn.

'Popcorn' designed by Willow Leaf Studio

Drop-Off Dates January 2025 - Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Here are the dates I am taking in quilts for longarm quilting in February 2025, including a Saturday (15th February). 

Friday 31st January
Tuesday 11th February
Friday 14th February
Saturday 15th February
Monday 17th February
Tuesday 18th February
Wednesday 19th February
Thursday 20th February
Friday 21st February
Monday 24th February
Tuesday25th February
Thursday 27th February
Friday 28th February

Liz's Modern Grey Triangle Quilt

Liz's Modern Grey Triangle Quilt

Sometimes just keeping it neutral is the way forward with a quilt.  They are easy to live with and that probably means they will get more use.  Liz did this lovely neutral grey quilt using a simple triangle pattern (one which has been on my 'Bucket list' for a while to create a lovely quilt for a family member.  To keep the calmness, Liz chose 'Bird's Eye View' a design by Barbara Becker.

'Birds Eye View' digital quilt pattern
designed by Barbara Becker

BONUS DAY - Mary's Sparrow Quilt

Mary's 'Sparrow Quilt'

I hope you have enjoyed the past 12 days of Christmas where I have been sharing some of quilts I quilted for my customers last year.  I have thrown in this bonus day featuring Mary's 'Sparrow Quilt' by Pen and Paper Patterns. Mary and Alyson completed this project together, you can see Alyson's here. I wanted to show how different they look in with a different style of fabric and a different quilting pattern.  Mary has used Liberty fabrics and for the pattern we used 'Jasmine' a pretty floral pattern designed by Anne Bright.

Mary's 'Sparrow Quilt'

'Jasmine' digital pantograph
by Anne Bright Designs

12th Day of Christmas 2024 - Alyson's Sparrows Quilt by Pen and Paper Patterns

Alyson's Sparrows Quilt

Today I am sharing Alyson's 'Sparrows Quilt', a Pen and Paper Patterns quilt design, which has rows of cute birds all over it.  Alyson used a Moda Grunge blue background and some peachy orange Grunge tails for her birds.  A simple, but very effective pattern.  

Alyson's Sparrows Quilt

For the quilting pattern, Alyson chose 'Squirts' designed by Anne Bright, a swirly pattern which on this occasion gives the impression of twigs and branches.

'Squirts' designed by Anne Bright

11th Day of Christmas 2024 - Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt

Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt

Today I am bringing you Carol's wonderful 'Good Friday' quilt.  The pattern is called ' Lent / Good Friday' designed by Jen Frost of Faith and Fabric.  With the dark brown against the white, the crosses have a striking luminosity.  It was quite a big quilt, so Carol took advantage of Fabadashery Longarm Quilting binding service.

Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt

For the quilting pattern we used 'Bird's Eye View' designed by Barbara Becker.  This quilting pattern is great if you want to maintain a calm serenity to your quilt top and works on a lot of quilts.

 'Bird's Eye View' designed by Barbara Becker

10th Day of Christmas 2024 - Susan's Australian Flower Quilt

Susan's Australian Flower Quilt

Last time, I featured one of Susan's quilts, it received a very positive reaction from all of you.  Well, she has done it again, this time printing images of Australian flowers onto fabric to incorporate them into her quilt.  There are also some of her signature animals and shells. 

'Glide 'Prickly Pear Thread

Susan is one of my postal customers, so although we have never met, we are able to correspond to make her quilts the best they can be, choosing the thread colour and quilt pattern to get the best effect.

Susan's Australian Flower Quilt

On this occasion, we chose 'Malachite' designed by Patricia Ritter for Urban Elementz, with Glide Prickly Pear thread.

''Malachite' quilting pattern designed by Patricia E Ritter

January 2025 - Drop-Off Dates Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Happy New Year! I hope you have been enjoying some of the lovely quilts that my customers have made in my 12 Days of Christmas on my blog, Facebook and Instagram pages.  I always try to include as many as I can on my website, so that you and other customers can gain a greater understanding of what quilting patterns might be suitable for your quilt top.  Below are some dates I am taking in quilts in the next few weeks.  If none of those dates are suitable, get in touch and we can usually arrange something at your convenience, or maybe take advantage of my postal service. 

Email: frances@fabadashery.co.uk Tel:01291 629120

Tuesday 7th January
Wednesday 8th January
Thursday 9th January

Friday 10th January

Tuesday 14th January
Wednesday 15th January
Thursday 16th January
Friday 17th January
Monday 20th January
Tuesday 21st January
Thursday 23rd January
Friday 24th January
Monday 27th January
Tuesday 28th January
Thursday 30th January
Friday 31st January

9th Day of Christmas 2024 - Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt

Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt

When someone brings Fabadashery Longarm Quilting a quilt I never quite know what I am going to unfold.  When I first saw Anne's quilt, I was amazed by the design and colours, but I wasn't sure what quilting pattern was going to work on it. A quick flick through my pattern book and I felt I had found one which would be perfect.  

Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt

With the movement of the black and white lines, we chose 'African Samba' stitched in a mid-grey Glide thread.  The pattern seemed to echo the windows of colourful Kaffe's Fassett fabrics.  I am sure this gift was well-received.

'African Samba' digital pantograph by Apricot Moon

8th Day of Christmas 2024 - Sue's SOS Liberty Log Cabin Quilt

Sue's SOS Liberty Quilt

Since 2016 the Quilt SOS Project organised by Alice Caroline has been distributing Liberty fabric quilts to a range of charities at home and abroad.  Throughout the years, Sue has always made a contribution and, with some help from a friend, this year has made a rainbow log cabin quilt in a wide range of Liberty Tana Lawn fabrics. This year the quilts will be supporting families through GARAS (Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers). If you want to get involved, get in touch with Alice Caroline.

Sue's SOS Liberty Quilt

The purpose of these quilts are to keep people warm and to be easy to care for, so on this occasion we used 100% Hobbs Polydown and quilted it with a pretty new pattern to my collection called 'Shell Game' designed by Willow Leaf Studio.

'Shell Game' designed by Willow Leaf Studio