Longarm Machine Quilting Services
KimQuilt is now taking orders for 2023
Welcome to KimQuilt. I'm located in Bella Vista, NSW.
If you'd like to have your finished quilt top professionally longarm quilted by an award winning quilter,
contact kim@kimquilt.com or call 02 9836 4351.
Locate us on Maps (click here).
My name is Kim and I have been quilting using a Gammill® longarm quilting machine since 2003. I have 3 Gammill® machines with Statler computerized control so this means a reduced turn around time (mainly for edge to edge patterns). The patterns to choose from are endless with the Statler, you can select from a large number of pre-programmed patterns or if you really need a special pattern we can create new patterns as an additional service as well.
I charge by the area of the quilt top with very reasonable prices. The costs do vary by the difficulty of the quilting job. The lowest costs are for simple edge-to-edge patterns. The most expensive are the more time consuming custom block by block designs. I don't normally supply batting or backing fabric.
I stock a wide range of threads so I can match your quilt for best results.
There is a minimum charge of $50 for the very smallest of jobs.
Preparing Your Quilt for Machine Quilting
Do not baste your quilt.
Backing and batting must be at least 15cm larger on all sides than the quilt top.
Iron your quilt top and backing for best results.
Longarm quilting is done very differently to other quilting methods. The quilt top, batting and backing are sandwiched by the quilting machine and must be provided as three separate pieces. There is no need to baste the quilt and in fact basting the quilt will require that it is unbasted before longarm quilting incurring extra time and cost. The size of the backing and batting must be at least 15cm larger on all sides than the quilt top. It is very important that the backing have two parallel sides for proper loading. The backing seams must be pressed to one side. Quilt top and backing must be ironed to ensure the best outcome.
Please note that I do not make quilt tops. I receive many requests from people who desire a quilt creation from scratch, however these jobs are very involved and time consuming and so I can't include this as a service. I specialise in longarm quilting of your creations.
Get in Touch
If you're interested in having your finished quilt top longarm quilted by me, please email me at kim@kimquilt.com or call 02 9836 4351 and tell me details of your work. I can give you a quote based on the size and type of quilting you're looking for. I'm located in Bella Vista, NSW so if you're located in the North West of Sydney, the Hills District, I'm close to you. I have customers from Norwest, Glenwood, Baulkham Hills, Riverstone, Windsor, Castle Hill, Dural, Galston, Kenthust, West Pennant Hills and Richmond, but if you're from Glenhaven, Kellyville, Stanhope, Blacktown, Beaumont Hills, Schofields, Quakers Hill, Lalor Park, Seven Hills, etc, then I'm only a few minutes away.
Also, when I find some interesting tools, I'll upload them to the Resources page (click here) for you to enjoy.
Happy Quilting!
Kim.
This quilt won 2nd prize at the 2011 Royal Easter Show for the 4th of July quilt.
Aussie Hero Quilts
Aussie Hero Quilts is an organisation of many community minded quilters who have dedicated some of their creative time to making quilts and laundry bags in appreciation of our deployed service men and women. Please contact Aussie Hero Quilts if you'd like to get involved.
Gammill QLI Tools
We have written some software tools for the Gammil Statler QLI file format which we provide as free downloads with the GPL V3 open source license. These include a QLI file converter and validator as well as some pattern organization tools. The new version is written in C++ is called QLI Explorer and runs natively on Windows and includes a thumbnail viewer plugin for Windows file Explorer, click here to download QLI Explorer. The first version of these tools was written in Python and is available for download, see our resources page.
Contact Details: kim@kimquilt.com or call 02 9836 4351 location (click here).