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Let me introduce myself. My name is Michelle Parker and I’ve been quilting since 1997 when a friend introduced me to this wonderful world. I had no clue then how this craft would become so much a part of my daily life. Every day includes petting fabric, sewing, cutting, looking through books or enjoying the eye candy on Instagram and Facebook. My sister-in-law was surprised when I started combining prints and stripes and plaids because I was the last person to accept patterned ties and striped shirts for men. Now I can’t imagine that ever being a concern. 

My love for fabric and sewing started in high school Home Ec. I made a goldenrod calico print jumper – yes, I now know it was as awful as it sounds. I was so excited to get started I missed the instruction to wash and dry the fabric.  I made my masterpiece and was able to wear it a couple times. Of course, I’m sure you know what happened. I washed it, it shrunk and well, enough said. Lesson learned when it came to sewing garments. After that class I sewed anything and everything. Curtains, drapes, prom dresses and everything in between. My love for fabric was alive and being well fed. 

I made clothes for myself and my girls when they were young. I tailored items for all of us to make store bought items fit better and correctly.  Then a funny thing happened – my body no longer fit into the styles I was used to making. I’m sure it was the patterns and not my body. I was no longer sewing for myself because it was just too frustrating. I was doing cross stitch and embroidery when my friend introduced me to quilting. Now we’re talking! A quilt just has to go under your feet and over your shoulder and over the body to be able to take a nice nap under it. I was sold! 

During this time, I worked in the corporate world in a variety of industries for my day job – oil and gas, software and ecommerce. I also worked part-time in my local quilt store on the weekends and continued there for almost 20 years. It’s there that I started teaching quilting classes. 

Fast forward to the present and I was blessed with the opportunity to be able to start this business and make my love of a quilting a full-time gig. I have lots of ideas and plans with the first ones being offering long arm quilting services, binding services, and custom and memory/T-shirt quilts.

I look forward to exploring ways we can journey together in our passion for quilting,

Michelle