How We've Grown!

From our humble beginning with just one template 17 months ago, we are now awaiting the shipment of our newest templates!

After the Baptist Fan template came the Feather Wreath template, followed by Five-point Star templates in two sizes, an Eight-point Star template, a Multishape template, and now the Dahlia template in two sizes. 

 We have videos posted on our website showing how to use these innovative tools to make great designs on your quilts with the least effort!

Here are some of the shapes you can make with them:

(The temporary Dahlia template demonstration is currently only posted on our Facebook page and a better one will be posted with the others soon.) 

We owe our continued success to our supporters, many of whom are repeat customers as each new template comes out. Many thanks to you for telling your friends about our templates and helping to spread the word.

God is good!

Happy Stitching!

Betty
http://TopAnchorQuilting.com

The Way the Toes Go!

 

While stitching footprints using the new feather wreath template, I discovered that it makes a huge difference which way you stitch circles for the toes. You can see this difference plainly in the photo above. The line connecting the toes needs to be under the toes (left) and not on the outside (bottom right).  (Smaller stitches will help smooth out the design as well, but that's another subject.)

 

 

Stitching these was so much fun! This is a design I'm sure to use often in baby quilts, as wreaths but mostly just in arcs or even part of an overal freehand pattern. Love those footprints!

 

Feather Wreath Template Update

The graphic artist sent new artwork for the feather wreath template, which I signed and returned. He is sending a prototype for approval, and then next comes pricing and production. How exciting!

 

Create-A-Wreath Contest Update

The contest entries have been coming in and they are amazing! You folks are way beyond creative! I wish I could share them but you will have to wait until the contest is over.

Contest entries are due in another week so keep working on them! Anyone can enter even if you don't have a longarm quilting machine. It's the design that counts; you can send pictures of pen or pencil drawings, or stitched designs.

 

Don't forget you have until

midnight on January 31 to enter the

Create-a-Wreath Contest!

http://topanchorquilting.blogspot.com/p/create-wreath-contest.html

 

Happy Stitching!

 

Betty

One Step Closer!

It's been one month and one week since the EZ Arc quilting template was first offered to the public. Seems like a year!

 

It's been great, though. Our first order from the manufacturer has almost sold out and more are on order. The EZ Arc tool and all the others to be introduced in the coming months (including the feather wreath shown below) use the same TopAnchor system, which allows the template to rotate around a stationary post fastened directly to the top of the quilt in the stitching area in front of the machine.

 

 

Great News!

The artwork for our new feather wreath template arrived from the manufacturer today for approval. What do you think? The pink will be a much lighter pink when screened onto the acrylic and will help make the guidelines more visible.

Complete instructions will come with the template, but basically you stitch around one teardrop section, rotate the template and stitch the next section. After completing that part of the wreath, tie off the thread and start in the other section and repeat all the way around again. Piece of cake!

I am the furthest from a precision longarmer as you can find, and this new tool makes even my work look good! Here are some samples:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TopAnchorQuiltingTools/photos/album/2016458195/pic/list

I can't wait until it is available to share with you all. I'm still shooting for the end of this month, but we'll have to see what happens.

Don't forget you have until

midnight on January 31 to enter the

 

Create-a-Wreath Contest!

 

http://topanchorquilting.blogspot.com/p/create-wreath-contest.html

Happy Stitching!

Betty

SOON!

 

Three lucky people will win a free

10" FEATHER WREATH LONGARM TEMPLATE

Watch for contest details January 15, 2013

Happy Stitching!

Betty

  http://TopAnchorQuilting.com