If you are thinking about a special graduation gift in the form of a quilt we would be honored to create it for you. A quilt from personal items makes a very unique present for your graduate to remember school years by. It’s also a great way to preserve lots of memories of school: honors, activities, friends, and sports. Being made from special personal items, we need time to design and make it so that it will be ready in time for when you need it. Getting started earlier than you think is a fabulous idea. It’s just January and its early but we’ve already been working on graduation orders that were received before Christmas. The closer it gets to May, the busier we get and we’d like to make sure that if you need it for a spring graduation, it’s ready on time. Feel free to call to get started or schedule an appointment to come in if you’re in the Atlanta area. We’d love to create something special for you. 678-324-8084
Congratulations Georgia Bulldogs on winning the national championship. Save your shirts and jerseys sports fans ! We can create something fabulous for you like this with your selected team shirts, in team colors and fabrics, with quilting all over that Uga the bulldog mascot would certainly appreciate–dog bones. Let’s get started! 678-324-8084.
As part of our design process, we’ll ask a lot of questions to make sure that your quilt turns out exactly as you want it to. Brianna wanted the border to be made up of different color squares including some that matched her home decor. Check! She wanted thin royal blue fabric lines separating the shirts and the outer squares to frame each one. Check! After spending time poring over quilting designs she found one that she liked and a soft orange thread that worked nicely against the blue. We were able to incorporate both. Check! Done and off to her home in D.C.
What’s on your wishlist? If we can sew it, we’ll make it happen, by design!
This handsome guy, Cardo, just picked up his extra large and comfy Christmas present. He drove all the way back to Georgia from Texas to be home for the holidays. His quilt is big at 125″ x 131″ and has all of his high school shirts and jerseys stitched together in to a quilt. The quilting is wolf paws from the high school mascot. Cardo is a sophomore studying agriculture at Texas A&M. He plays lacrosse and also has the important job of being responsible for the care of the official Texas A&M mascot “Reveille” a collie. It was a pleasure to see Cardo again in person. Merry Christmas everyone and thanks Mom Sarita for selecting us to create quilt number 6 for you.
Think of us if you need some unique art by your elevator or in your commercial space. Following specs we created two quilted fabric fives, one for each side of the floor by the elevator at Microsoft in Atlanta ! Many thanks Speedpro for selecting us to help with this.
We continue to accept custom orders for the holidays. Our elves are busy working to have all of the custom quilts currently in house completed and to their destinations in time. Good things take time so as of 11/1/21 we can no longer guarantee Christmas or Hanukkah delivery for new orders. We will start on it; and, if we do get it completed by your deadlines, there will be an additional fee based on how close it is to the holiday when we receive your order. If we don’t get it completed by 12/25/21 there is no additional fee; but, of course, you also won’t have your special gift when you need it. Perhaps we can aim for Valentine’s Day, a birthday or other special occasion in the New Year. We did receive our first order for May 2022 graduation this past October. When it comes to custom, early is good! Questions, call us at 678-324-8084.
We had fun with this. Pictured on our cover is our take off on what AOC was wearing at the star studded Met gala. Click on it to see the full picture. In our version we’ve got our our amazing team member, Emily, modeling art in the form of a painted dress, sheet wrap. It was designed and painted by team member, Amy. All in all, the pose, the hair, the dress. We think she nailed it!
It’s always special to hear the story behind the quilt. We were just about finished with this one and I realized from making the quilt that I knew more about his Dad that the quilt was made in memory of than about Corey who hired us to make it. So I admitted it and just asked him, starting with “what do you do?” Here’s the answer and rest of the story from Corey.
I have been an academic advisor and a history instructor. Currently I am a manager of academic advisors and I teach history for Chattahoochee Technical College. I also teach history part-time for Kennesaw State. I really enjoy teaching and advising college students and he’s a big reason why. He helped become a naturally supportive person.
We had a exceptionally close relationship, in part because I was practically adopted. Biologically my grandfather, he saved me from reckless teenagers and gave me support and stability. He wasn’t married during my lifetime and my grandmother had already passed away (they were divorced anyway) and so for the first decades of my life, we were a total tag team. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed spending time together. We went on vacations, beach trips, all kinds of sporting events. You name it. I had an unusual, but rich, childhood and tons of life lessons packed into our 25 years together.
Because he was biologically my grandfather, I of course knew that I would be “orphaned” relatively young but when he got sick and died within a month right as I turned 26, I thought I had been robbed of another ten years together. I didn’t just lose my dad. I lost my best friend, sports buddy, and life advisor, too. As for the most important lesson that he taught me, and this may not be exactly what you’re looking for but the most enduring lesson I got from him was to have confidence in myself. He was very supportive of me, my biggest fan, my cheerleader, and truly seemed to think that I could do anything. This has pushed me to take the next step, personally and professionally, countless times. Especially after his death.
He was a veteran and more of blue collar type and really entrenched in rural, small town, north Georgia life, but he recognized early on that I was different and he never tried to make me conform to that. Instead, he really supported and encouraged me to go to college and get an office job “with benefits.” The last part always makes me laugh because he was emphatic about that since he ran his own business, quite successfully, for most of his life, and it could consume his life. He didn’t think it was worth it and didn’t want that for me; and he loved that I ended up going downtown to Georgia State for my degree. He used to embarrass me to death by telling all the locals about my academic journey.
The quilting reflects that he loved cars. From the clothes we can tell he liked the Atlanta Braves and the Falcons.
Chapter 1 of the story ends there. Corey said the writing was “therapeutic” . So, I think we need another few paragraphs to really close it. Hint, hint !
