About Shea Studio Quilting
My name is Susan Shea and I have been sewing since I was a teenager, making my own clothes, clothes for my children and others. When I started quilting over ten years ago I found a new excitement for sewing. I have always loved color and interesting designs and quilting opened up a new world of creativity for me. As a child, I loved the beautiful patchwork quilts that my grandmother and women of her generation created from scraps of dress material. When I looked at my grandmother's quilts, I could remember most of the fabrics from dresses I had seen worn by various members of the family as well as myself. Living in a farming community during the depression, every scrap was used for something.
You make the choices that make the quilt your own creation!
Today we have such a wonderful assortment of fabrics to choose from and we agonize over finding just the right shade or texture to go with the other fabrics in our quilts. Every quilt is a masterpiece of creative and careful choices and is exquisite in its composition. If you are reading this, you are a quilter! Even if you have yet to finish your first quilt top, your interest in quilting drew you to this site and you are on a journey of self discovery through this unique creative art form.
The techniques you enjoy and the design choices you make are a personal expression of who you are and what is important to you. The possibilities are endless! From traditional, reproduction fabrics to colorful, splashy large prints and from formal Baltimore Album style appliqué to abstract, flowing, curved piecing, you make the choices and make the quilt your own creation!
Professional machine quilting adds the finishing touch!
Don't stop at making a quilt top that will stay in the closet to be finished someday. Give your cherished quilts the professional finish they deserve. My decision to enter the world of machine quilting was based on the fact that, as much as I loved piecing the quilt, the prospect of pushing and pulling it through my regular sewing machine held me back from being able to finish more quilts. The intricate designs that can be accomplished on a longarm quilting machine were not possible for me to do on my regular sewing machine. I wanted to do more and create more. That door has been opened to me by learning this exciting new technique.
If you have a quilt top that is ready for a professional finishing touch, I can help you choose an all over edge-to-edge design to finish your quilt fast and at a very affordable price, or I will work with you to design a custom treatment for a one-of-a-kind heirloom. Every quilt is special to me and is treated as the unique work of art that it is. Your talents and techniques will improve with every quilt that you create and professional machine quilting makes it possible for you to finish more quilts and expand your abilities. I look forward to working with you!
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