THE QUILTING BEES

EVERY QUILTER HAS A STORY AND WE DEFINITELY HAVE OURS...

In 2009 Sharon broke her leg and Jana was taking care of her everyday.  We decided to start sewing up a bunch of quilts once she was able to get around and before we knew it we had about 50 quilts ready to be finished.....but then the question came to mind "How are we going to quilt all these quilts!?"  Both of our light bulbs clicked on and we decided to invest in a Gammill Statler Longarm Quilting Machine and learn to do it ourselves and here we are!

What began as a horrible accident developed into a happy and thriving business that has brought us both incredible joy.  Our lives are forever changed through quilting, we will always remember how we got here and how passionate we are about quilting. 

Our Stories...

SHARON RAWLINGS

(Mother)

I have been sewing since Junior High School, and yes that seems like a life time ago.   I look back at the clothing I made and laugh, the bell bottoms, the poly cloth we used and the frilly dresses with rows and rows of lace and gathers.  As I grew up and out of sewing clothing, quilting was the natural next step.  I remember the first quilt I made, olive green, orange and white.  Hmmmmm, now does that date me?

​My love for quilting and creating is almost as fun as sharing the ideas and techniques with my children and grandkids.  I love to see them enjoy the art.  Probably the most fun I have is purchasing fabric.  I like the process of selecting patterns, fabric that compliments those patterns and then putting it all together.  

I have a fabric stash like none other.  My kids laugh and says I won't live long enough to sew it all up.  Ha! little do they know I am taking it with me.

I live in beautiful Treasure Valley, located in Washington Fields with my husband, Richard.

JANA JAMMET

(Daughter)

Growing up I wasn't interested in sewing, in fact during my 7th grade year my home economics teacher told me "you can't sew".  ​Sewing and Quilting was a skill I developed with the help of my mom at a much later age in life and now I cannot imagine my life without it!  She got me started piecing together simple quilts in 2005 using a very old "table shaking" sewing machine that really only had 1 stitching style option so I couldn't mess it up.  Luckily for me, I wasn't a lost cause, I just needed a good teacher!....and a great machine helps a lot too! I love my Pfaff! 

I am so grateful to my mom for teaching me this skill.  Quilting really has brought so much fun and creativity to my life.  I learn something new with every quilt I do and relearn different techniques continuously.  Surprisingly, one of my favourite parts of the "piecing a quilt" process is cutting out the fabric.  I am super focused on the "measure twice, cut once" method and I like figuring out what the pattern is trying to teach me.....also seeing my rotary blade cut through fabric like butter is pretty cool too.  

I love longarm quilting on the Gammill Statler! It's amazing how many different tricks you can do with the patterns to make them exactly how you want them to be.  So innovative and smart!  I look forward to the day that I get to play on a longarm again.

I currently live in the Central Southwest of France as of 2023 with my Husband, Pascal and our son, Sebastian.  I am still quilting and loving it.  I really miss longarm quilting with my mom, we always had a load of laughs and made creative magic together. I always look forward to our FaceTime sewing days to chat and sew and chat somemore!!