Blue Rose Quilting

After many years of patchworking and quilting on a succession of Bernina domestic sewing machines, I stumbled across a longarm quilting machine while visiting a friend and knew somehow, I just had to have a longarm. Shortly after we moved to the beautiful town of Bridgetown in the south west of W.A, I was able to lease a huge American Professional Quilting machine (APQS Ultimate XX) and started on a vertical learning curve to master the beast, the only one of it’s kind in Australia that I know of. While attending the 2007 Quilting and Craft expo in Perth I fell in love again, this time with an APQS Millenium, top of the range and at a much more manageable size. I couldn’t wait to go home and convince my dear husband Ed that purchasing Millie was a really good idea. Luckily he agreed and Millie eventually arrived at the end of July 2007.