![]() ![]() ![]() I had always done my quilting myself on a sit-down sewing machine, but I was constantly struggling with handling the bulk of the quilt and dealing with skipped stitches and thread breaks. How did you make the transition to longarm machine quilting? There’s a lot of math that’s involved in laying out patterns, so there were a lot of similarities to what I was doing at work. My professional background is engineering drafting, and I found that quilting was a way for me to incorporate what I did on the drafting board with fabric on the sewing machine. I started quilting in the early 1980s after having watched lots of TV programs about it. Kathy lives in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania and quilts on an APQS George machine that she bought just about a year ago. We decided to give Kathy a call to learn more about the quilt and her process of creating it. When we saw the pictures of Kathy Plumley’s “Urban Oasis” One-Block Wonder, we fell in love with the colors, quilting and creative design choices.
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