Friends of Trace Creek Quilting

Support the shops, designers, and friends who support us!

Fabric Shops!

Everyone always asks where we get our fabric, where do we shop, how do we pull bundles together? Below is a list of some of the most excellent fabric shops across the country and we highly recommend you check them out! These folks are always a delight to work with and always have gorgeous fabric available in their shops.
Plus, if you order from them you are likely to get a TCQ coupon for your next longarming order!! (Starting early September 2022)

Lamb and Loom
We understand that creating special, handmade projects is about the journey, not just the destination. We’re dedicated to curating the best fabrics in the industry to offer our customers, helping you turn your sewing dreams into a reality. Online only, located in Texas.

Pasadena Quilt Studio
At Pasadena, Jennyth fully believes that every quilter is an artist and that quilting plays an important role in the greater art industry as a whole. Her shop specializes in solids, artisan prints, and unique fabric bundles and kits from modern quilt designers all across the country!

Sarah Made
Located in the heart of the Midwest, Sarah Made is a modern online fabric shop specializing in curated quilt kits from many of the contemporary pattern designers you love along with bundles and yardage.

Cottoneer
An online fabric shop on the Central Coast of California specializing in beautiful woven textiles with natural textures and earthy color palettes! You'll find a gorgeous selection of prints and sewing supplies as well as beautifully curated fabric bundles.

Global Fiber Shop
We specialize in bundles blending textures and fresh color palettes, inspired by natural elements and our love for travel. Featuring collections curated for modern sewists and quilters, we hope to inspire you to try something new - a new texture, color-story or print.

The Grey Finch Company
Our family owned online fabric shop is located in Nashville, TN specializes in quilting cotton and linen including yardage, bundles patterns and kits. Our customers especially love the personal attention and care with our quick response time and service.

Local in St. Louis, Missouri

Jackmans
Located on Lindbergh near Olive, Jackman’s is one of the largest fabric shops in the metro area. Head their way to see some of your favorite fabrics in person. Hint: I try to keep a stock of business cards/coupons in the back!

There are more local places and I’ll list them for you someday. But for now I’m focused on the ones who have allowed me to put out business cards/coupons. :)

Panto (pantographs) are the quilting patterns we use on your quilts. We list these folks in various places within the website but would be remiss if we didn’t take the opportunity to show our love for these folks on this resource page.
Your quilt are more beautiful because of the artwork, yes artwork, of these individuals. We’ve been lucky enough to build relationships with many of them and that partnership not only makes us better longarmers, but shows just how important it is to support each other and lift each other up!

Panto Designers

Longarm League
Jess publishes monthly patterns to her expansive community of longarm quilters, of which TCQ is a proud member. Here you will find unique designs that will both compliment your quilt and showcase the quilting!

Mistletoe Quilting
Haley loves all things floral, geometric, & holiday, and is constantly inspired by all the things around her. She is a rebel and that carries that over to her panto designs, meaning they are usually more complex & intricate in one way or another. An exciting challenge for TCQ!!

Ma Tante Quilting
In partnership with her mother, Shelley of Ma Tante has a lovely collection of pantos that feels both familiar and unique all at the same time. Maybe it’s because she’s Canadian, or maybe it’s just because she’s brilliant.

Sew Shabby Quilting
Melissa hasn’t been designing for long but that hasn’t stopped her from cranking out one amazing panto after another. Her work is modern, clean, and designed with ease for the longarmer and quilting process in mind making them fast and fun to work with!

The Quilting Mill
Barbie creates minimalist, modern, geometric pantos that are easy for longarm quilters to line up and stitch out making them versatile and easy to perfect on a quilt top.

627 Handworks
Julie’s pantographs are inspired by images and patterns she sees all around her in her home and while she is out and about. They tend to be clean and modern versions of traditional patterns, perfect for every quilt!

Dastardly Line
Deborah offers a curated selection of digital patterns very illustrative in nature, born from her background as a fine artist. Based in Glasgow, her mission is to expand the wonders of longarm quilting by using the machinery experimentally alongside encouraging and educating others.

Intelligent Quilting
This website is a powerhouse of amazing designers. If you want a one stop shop, this is. Head here for novelty or theme specific patterns as well as the latest perfect panto from Apricot Moon Designs, Lorien’s Quilting, and Crystal Smythe herself.

Karlee Porter
Karlee loves creating digital designs that push the limits of computerized quilting while also being utilitarian enough to use on everyday quilts! Whether you’re making a wall hanging or functional quilt, she is constantly creating new designs for likeminded quilters who just want to see how far they can go in utilizing their computerized quilting machine.

Longarmers!

The longarming community is the most supportive and genuinely helpful group of people I’ve encountered. My business has grown exponentially because of the encouragement, advice, and just straight up cheerleading of the other longarmers in my world. I respect and admire the work and influence of all the businesses listed below and if for some reason my services do not fit your needs, I highly encourage you to work with one of these amazing individuals.

Local in STL:

Annie Cook
I’d say Annie is the best kept secret in St. Louis but I think too many people know about her for that to be true! She specializes in custom free motion and ruler work modern quilting. She’s happy to take on traditional and all over quilting. Email her here!

Threaded Spools Studio
Emily in St. Charles, MO has a goal to choose quilting designs that compliment and elevate each quilt top, whether its dense hand-guided custom quilting to create texutre, clean and simple computerized edge-to-edge, or somewhere in between.

Across the country:

Mistletoe Quilting
Located in Omaha, NE, Haley has been quilting professionally since she was 18 and lives for longarm quilting of all types, but loves more than anything quilting out more intricate edge-to-edge designs.

Quilts Made With Love
Michelle offers the highest quality machine longarm quilting and binding services to quilters all over the country. She enjoys working with new quilters, experienced quilters, and finishing vintage quilt tops. (Lexington, KY)

Sew Shabby Quilting
If you are looking for spectacular custom work, an excellent eye for adding details that showcase your piecing, and a huge library of original pantographs, Melissa is your girl! She’s located in Utah and takes local and mail in quilts.

Wild Phil Quilting
Mindy and her husband are working with some talented creators and quilters all across the country. They offer both custom and edge to edge and everything that comes from their studio is spectacular. I always have a little squeal of excitement when I see a quilt that has their name on it!

Tia Curtis
Tia Curtis has been a professional Long arm quilter, educator, and pattern writer for almost 15 years. She specializes in stunning hand guided custom quilting and expert digital edge to edge services. Tia has two Gammill longarm machines that hum away on quilts from all over the world. (Kansas City, MO)

Doodle Quilting Studio
She may be in Alaska but that doesn’t stop Enjole from working with customers all across the US. She’s a Bernina ambassador so you’ve maybe seen her at a quilt show and she clearly knows her way around a longarm machine!

Henhouse Quilting
Located in central Washington state, Ashley loves working on quilts from all over the U.S. She pays close attention to the details and loves helping you find the perfect design for your quilt!

Kick It Up Quilting
Located in CT, Vicki loves custom work, especially when combining digital designs with freehand/ruler work to make it unique for each quilt. She’s so good that she teaches her particular techniques to other longarmers that have her machine brand.

Ma Tante Quilting
For all our Canadian friends; Shelly is totally your girl! Kind, enthusiastic, and welcoming, Shelley is a delight to work with whatever level of quilter you may be.

Looking for more? The Longarm League has a whole directory of longarmers - find someone near you!!

The Longarm League Directory