Welcome to Seldom Seen Quilting, located in the heart of beautiful, historic Waxahachie. Let us help you with all of your quilting needs.

• Professional longarm quilting

• Longarm rental by the day

• One-on-one instruction

• Custom quiltmaking (memory and T-shirt quilts, for example)

• Talk to us about purchasing your own Grace longarm

• Grandma Ronda’s Quilts fabric store now on site (www.grandmarondasquilts.com)

Call or text 972-921-6715 to make your appointment today, or stop by and see us at 511 Brown Street, Waxahachie, TX 75165.

We are open seven days a week, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Seldom Seen Quilting is a well-lighted, user-friendly longarm quilting studio at 511 Brown Street in Waxahachie, Texas.

You can rent a Grace Q’Nique 19X longarm quilting machine on a 10-foot Quilter’s Evolution Elite frame for only $82.50 per day — and I’ll walk you through the process of doing your own longarm quilting. There’s a $38 fee on the first day for your lesson, and I provide thread (every color under the sun) for only $11.50 per day.

If you don’t want to do your own quilting, I will be more than happy to do it for you! I can even make you a quilt from scratch.

My fees are reasonable, I’m open seven days a week, and my turnaround time is one of the best you’ll find in the quilting industry.

You can also talk to me about buying your own Grace longarm quilting equipment.

Come on by and see me — 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. any day!

It’s Saturday morning and pouring rain. The sidewalk looks like a miniature river. The trees are letting their sodden branches droop low to the grass. You can just about see the grass growing as it soaks in as much of the water as it can handle. It’s a great day for quilting!

My newest student asked me that this morning. Not yet. Not yet. But, I think about my own grandmothers every day. One taught me to sew; the other gave me quilts that started my love affair with the art form, oh so many years ago. So they are with me, every day, in the studio — in every thing I do. For instance, this piece of fabric, part of a quilt that was pieced by my husband’s great grandmother, reminded me of a piece of fabric I found in my grandmother’s stash one year. She let me choose fabric from her stash whenever I came to visit — and we would walk to Sprouse Reitz and buy a pattern and some notions, and head back home to sew. I found a beautiful sky-blue fabric with a loose weave and black floral flocking. Oh, it was stunning. I made a “maxi” dress, with a square neckline, puffed sleeves, and a three-tiered, gathered skirt that reached to the floor. I was so proud to wear it to church!

This is such an exciting moment! The pattern for Celtic Nights, my first major quilt design, is ready to go! It comes in two colorways — original and Debora’s — named for my good friend Debora Proctor who suggested the colors. The pattern sells for $12 — you can get yours by sending me an e-mail at seldomseenquilting@gmail.com, by calling me at 972-921-6715, by stopping by the Studio inside My Father’s House Antiques Mall, or by visiting Seldom Seen Quilting on Etsy. I can’t wait to see your Celtic Nights quilt when it is done!

When I started out full time at Seldom Seen Quilting Studio, I had no idea of the depth of the blessings that God had planned for me there — none! I thought I would simply rent machines to other quilters and putter with my own projects. I agreed to do quilting for family members. From that I gained confidence, and began to take in quilting for others. Then I agreed to make a custom quilt — Sunbonnet Sue, for a family member. One thing lead to another — one confidence grew to embrace another skill and another skill. Today, I find the custom quiltmaking is one of my greatest joys. Like this memory quilt I’ve been working on this week — the second one I’ve made for this family, from their grandfather’s pajamas. I pray as I sew, and I pray that they will be blessed by the quilt — but I have received the first blessings.