• Long arm quilting is stronger and faster than hand stitching.
  
• The designs that can be applied to a quilt top on a long arm machine are endless.
  
• Having your top quilted saves you time.
  
• You will save yourself a backache because you will not be wrestling with your quilt using your home sewing machine.
  
• No basting is required.
  
• All layers of the quilt stay properly taut inside the rollers of the long arm machine.

Longarm Examples

Custom   Custom with thread-drawing   Overall Design'

Pizzazz Studios offers hand-guided long arm machine quilting services using a Gammill Classic Plus 14-foot-long industrial sewing machine. This machine allows each layer of the quilt to be properly stretched while laying perfectly flat. Rather than the quilted layers being moved around, the entire sewing head on this machine glides across the machine. It sounds a little like magic, but the operator, Denise Cawley is guiding each stitch in place.

What kind of tops does Denise quilt?

Note: Denise is not accepting quilts at this time. While Denise has experience quilting all sorts of tops, from very traditional pieced works to fun memory quilts or even the most unusual art quilts, she now only accepts quilts that customers want creatively quilted. As there are so many talented long-arm quilters out there you should go to someone who truly specializes in what you are looking for. For example, Denise has drawn facial features on quilts that were pieced portraits. She is wonderful and taking convergence quilts and drawing all sorts of fun designs all over the top. Give her appliquéd flowers and look at the magic she can grow. She usually takes any work her students do. Often she will take a traditional quilt if the customer wants creative thread-work added to it. Denise loves coming up with fun overall designs and adores the opportunity to draw with thread all over your quilt. Denise has learned that there are plenty of long-arm quilters who love to stitch in the ditch or make traditional quilting designs in each of your blocks. Once Denise pleased a customer to no end when she drew all sorts of roses on a quilt memorializing a customer's late husband who gave her roses all their married life. If that is what you are looking for you should employ Denise to quilt your piece. If you are looking for an original design, something unusual or your quilt is an art quilt, Denise might be the right quilter for you. If you are looking for something more traditional Denise will let you know that it is not her specialty and refer you to a quilter who can provide the style you want for your precious creation.

Denise no longer accepts quilts that she terms ‘quilts made by the non-quilter.' So if your group or family decided to make a quilt and none of them had quilted before and each person did different stuff to their square this is not a quilt for Denise to do. If you want stitch in the ditch all over and you want lots of stippling this isn't Denise's specialty and she can refer you to someone else. If you have questions don't hesitate to call and ask. Your quilt tops are too special to give to just anyone.

Long arm pricing (PDF)
Preparing your top to be quilted (PDF)
Download the order form (PDF)

Denise has been exhibiting her art in galleries and museums for more than 10 years. To learn more about Denise's credentials check out her resume. Denise's talent for drawing, painting and fiber art has been enhanced through study at Parsons School of Design in New York, at Alverno College and through instruction from national quilting instructors like Nancy Crow, Jinny Beyer, Ellen Anne Eddy, David Walker, Nancy Zieman and many more. Denise stays up to date regarding industry trends through her memberships in the Surface Design Association, The American Quilters Society, the International Quilting Association, and the International Machine Quilters Association. Denise is also an ASQ Certified Quality Technician. Denise brings all this artistry, knowledge, and attention to detail to your quilting projects.