Tammy Finkler, Quilting Artist
Location: Conklin, MI
Quilting Experience: 18 years
website: http://www.tkquilting.com/
Quilting Tips: To help reduce fold lines and wrinkles in show quilts, use wool batting. It will help them to hang nicely for display after being shipped and/or folded.
Tammy Finkler has been quilting professionally since 1991. She began free-motion quilting on her Bernina sewing machine, moving on to long-arm quilting machines in 1995 and then added a Statler Stitcher in 2005.
Tammy runs a full time machine quilting and digitized pattern business from her studio, located on a 205 acre family farm in Michigan. Many of her original whole cloth quilts have won awards in national shows, including Best of Show at MQX 2006, the Gammill Long Arm Award at the AQS show in Paducah in 2007 and 1st in Merit Quilting-Machine at IQA in Houston in 2008.
Tammy will be featured in an upcoming episode of TheQuiltShow.com with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims. Watch Tammy guide you step-by-step through the process of designing intricate whole cloth quilting designs - Episode 510 premiers November 9, 2009. www.thequiltshow.com