I seem to have a split personality these days. After more than 40 years of making, collecting, and teaching people how to make traditional quilts, I still love that style. If that style interests you too, then come into my Hand Quilting World. Over the last few years, I've been drawn to explore the newest ideas that quilting has to offer. I've been quilting with a computerized longarm, designing digitized patterns, and enjoying the Modern Quilt movement. If you are shopping for digitized patterns or information on longarm quilting, enter here. Both worlds are exciting to me and I'd like to share them with you. On this page, you'll find examples of my traditional hand work, digitized quilting, my Quilt Rescue project, working with young quilters, and finishing quilts for others. Enjoy the quilt show and then follow the links to see more about the areas that interest you. |
Home Page of Anita Shackelford
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| "The Shackelford Family Album Quilt" hand appliqued and hand quilted, also includes trapunto, ruching and embroidery. |
| "Those Our Hearts are Fondest Of" , hand appliqued and hand quilted, also includes ruching and embroidery. |
| "Little Rose", hand appliqued and hand quilted with circular ruched flowers and buds. |
| "Sweetheart Rose", hand appliqued and hand quilted with trapunto. |
| Cherry Wreath with a Ruched Butterfly. Hand appliqued and hand quilted. |
| Detail of my French Basket pattern, which includes both strip and circular ruching. Hand appliqued and hand quilted. |
| Traditional and new come together in my Amish Bars and Four Patch. This very traditional quilt was custom quilted on my Statler Stitcher. |
| Another Modern Mix, with redwork patterns, embroidered by hand, and quilted with my Statler Stitcher. |
| My niece, Rose Willow, working on a Mosaic quilt which is one of the projects in our Teens & Tweens book. |
| My granddaughter, Amber, using the longarm to quilt her "Flowers in the Window" which is also included in Teens & Tweens. |
| T Shirt quilts and collage wall quilts are popular ways to save those special memories. Ask us about having one made. |
| My Quilt Rescue project includes finishing antique quilt tops and quilting them on our Statler Stitcher. Let us know if you have an old piece that needs to be finished into a lovely quilt to display in your home. |
| If you are interested in learning more creative ways to use your Statler Stitcher, I offer special projects, which can be downloaded and followed on your own at home or as a hands on workshop in my studio. |
| My daughter, Jen and I are available to finish your new quilt tops with fine custom quilting. |
| This quilt was finished with a combination of freehand background and my digitized Amish Feathers. |
| Fine applique looks beautiful with freehand background quilting. |
| For a simpler finish, we also offer hundreds of theme pantograph quilting patterns. |
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Hand Quilting, Ruching, Applique
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My Two Quilting Worlds
