The Bronze Premium Package is focused on the longarmer that wants an online web presence that requires little maintenance but allows their work, services, and skills to be shown and described.
The package includes up to a 500 word description of skills and services, 1 profile image (can be photo of you, your studio, your logo, etc.) at the top of the webpage, up to 10 high-resolution photos of longarm quilting projects (pictures can have titles and descriptions if desired), 1 included annual update of text/pictures , and when the business is within a search zone the site will have a “Featured” banner over it. When the profile is clicked the visitor will be taken to the longarm business’s dedicated web page - see live listing here.
Text example below 486 words and photos courtesy of my wife’s longarm website (Thanks Pammy)!
Like so many passions, they are either discovered or you're born into them.
I was born into quilting, crafting, and cooking. I can still remember when I was a child sitting at my mother's feet as she handed me scraps to sew together as I pretended to mimic her quilting. I would sit under the quilting frame made of 2 x 2 poles that hung from the basement ceiling to pass the needle back up to the neighborhood ladies that came often to our basement for a quilting bee. My mother and my grandmothers as far as I can remember, and as far as my mom and paternal grandmother can remember, quilted. These women were far more disciplined than me. They worked hard during the day on farms or just their house and yard, cooked all meals, mended all clothes, and took care of the children. At night, they quilted by hand from cut out cardboard shapes they either drew or cut out of the newspaper. They worked a couple of hours on their quilt and then exhausted, went to bed to start all over again. I'm sure they looked forward to that time when they could be still and enjoy the feel of the fabric in their hands and the needle being pulled in and out to create a masterpiece that took time and patience. As for me, chores come second to quilting. The love for this art runs rich and deep in my blood. It's a passion that is often hard to control. It's a passion that grows with the desire to make something with my own hands for someone else. They often don't know of the love and effort that goes into their gift. This matters not to me. Giving to others is probably my greatest joy.
Even though I was born into quilting, I didn't actually get serious with it until 2000. My husband and I bought 20 acres of land in Georgia and put a mobile home on it while we watched our dream house being built. During that time I pieced a king size log cabin quilt by hand while watching my two, now grown, boys play. In 2006, I was diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer and I can remember thinking that I wanted to make more quilts so that if anything ever happened to me, I could leave a little bit of my love behind in a handmade gift. Luckily this cancer was very treatable and I'm now 13 years cancer free. It was in 2006 that I began to take quilting lessons to learn to make a quilt from instructors. I was self-taught and only knew what little mama had taught me. As I began taking classes, I was determined that by hand was the only way to properly quilt until I witnessed how much faster I could get a quilt done with a sewing machine.
Please enjoy some photos of my work below:
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The description will display on the gallery image - click the quilt and you can zoom in without the description and move around to closely examine the quilting. The remaining images in this page will not have descriptions on them and will not have high resolution photos to zoom in on. In the Featured Listing they will unless you don’t want them to.
Lots of Feathers and Cross-Hatching
