My Story
Hi, I'm Corrie! I am a stay-at-home mom who homeschools three kids and also runs a longarm quilting business in the forested hills northeast of Vancouver, Washington. My family and I moved here in the fall of 2018 and truly call it home.
I have a long-standing background in textiles. I started learning to sew my own clothes in elementary school (a poodle skirt!) and it became a passion. I went on to get a college degree in Textiles and Clothing and worked for a handful of years in the retail and direct mail sectors (women's and men's apparel) before earning an MBA in International Business Management. Fast forward a few years and I became a mom and left the corporate world in the spring of 2012. That's when the sewing and quilting craze kicked into overdrive! I have made many little girly skirts and dresses over the years and have even become a machine embroiderer.
Take a peek at some of the personal quilts I have made.
When it became more than a hobby...
I bought my longarm in the middle of the move to Washington. It became part of the house-hunting plan to find one with a room large enough to fit an APQS Millennium on a 12' frame and it all worked out well. My husband wasn't home when Ms. Millie arrived in January 2019 so I hauled her and all the rails piece by piece to my upstairs studio and assembled her on my own. It was work but I can say that I know about every bolt and can do all my own maintenance. In the following months I practiced on my own quilts and a couple for charity. By September, I was quilting for customers and the rest is history!
Show Quilter
I never dreamed of being a "show quilter" but I guess I am now... October of 2022 was my second time entering quilts in the Quiltfest Northwest Show and I even earned some ribbons on my own quilts and vicariously through those that I quilted for others. It truly is a dream come true helping others finish their projects and making them shine.
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