Long Arm Quilting Services

Professional Quilting Your Way

You worked hard on your quilt top. It has its own personality. Now the time has come to finish your project.

Dark Star Fabrics can enhance your quilt’s personality with your choice of quilting methods.

Choice #1
Computer Guided Long Arm Quilting

Computer guided long arm quilting enhances a wide range of quilts. It works especially well on larger quilts and quilts with repeated design elements.

Thanks to our Nolting NV long arm quilting machine with the Quiltmagine computerized guidance system, we can offer you a variety of quilting designs to choose from.

The computerized approach highlights blocks and borders. Although we do not normally recommend edge-to-edge quilting, we will be happy to provide it upon request.

Choice #2
Freehand Long Arm Quilting

Does your project require an artistic or hand guided quilting design? Does it have 3-dimensional elements? Dark Star Fabrics offers freehand long arm quilting on our Nolting Pro long arm quilting machine.

Freehand quilting creates personalized designs to highlight individual design elements, with abundant background fill. No two design elements will ever be the same.

If you do not have a specific theme or block idea in mind, we will happily improvise the design for you. We do feathers, spirals, stars, flowers, open stippling and more. If you would like a particular design, we will try to replicate it for you.

Price

The price for either choice is 2¢ per square inch. For example, if you bring us a 60″ x 80″ quilt, your price would be $96.

The minimum price is $35 per project. The State of Maine charges sales tax on quilting services performed in Maine.

Size

Our machines can accept quilt tops up to 120 inches (ten feet) wide. Your quilt top must have one direction no longer than 120 inches.

Thread

We use King Tut 100% cotton top thread and Bottom Line bobbin thread. Since we choose bobbin thread to match the top thread, it might contrast with your backing. We do not charge extra for thread. 

Batting and Backing

Dark Star Fabrics sells 90″ wide 100% cotton batting in two weights for $10/yard. Choose between Pellon standard weight batting or Katahdin summer weight batting. We also carry 100% polyester, 80/20 and wool batting.

For backing, you may view our display of 108″ wideback fabrics and tell us your choice. As a long arm quilting customer, you will receive a discount from our regular online prices.

You are welcome to provide your own batting and backing. We will work with pieced batting and pieced backings. If you have a backing with piecework, please mark the top/bottom and left/right sides. Please measure batting and backing to include at least 2″+ extra on each edge for a small quilt or 4″ – 6″ extra on each edge for a large quilt.

Time

Because our timeline depends upon how long the current list is, we will give you an estimated time of completion when you deliver your quilt top. If we encounter an unexpected and unavoidable delay and cannot finish your quilt in the estimated time, we will let you know. Please tell us at the start if you need your quilt finished by a particular date.

Getting Started

We will be happy to confer with you to determine a good method and design for your quilt. Dark Star Fabrics will work with you from the beginning to meet your needs.

When you are ready, please make arrangements to deliver your quilt top to the Dark Star Fabrics retail store. If you are not nearby, you may send your quilt top to Dark Star Fabrics, 30 Main Street, Phillips, ME 04966.

Find Out More

For more information about our long arm quilting services, or for a custom estimate, please give us a call at (207) 639-1026 or send us a message.