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Show Rene Lakeside Tuesday, November 8, m 8 $p v MUIll t UAJtjJWaU quift with black backing Joan Jensen operate Quitting machine at Sew N Save in Clearfield. a rapid Sucking Store saves sewers some time, trouble 0 LORETTA PARK CoHtMl)Mnl CLEAR I If I D A double Irish Cham qudt With mnkhmg pillow adorn a bed in West Point, with a coordinating valance topping off the window, fvonne Johnson, the quill's owner, spent a week piecing square of fabric together at her sewing machine. When she finished it. she took the quilt top. the back and the c in Clearfield batting to to be quilted on the store quilting machine. "This is a seamed quilt and it would have been the pus to have quilted it by hand." said Johnson. It cost Johnson $65 to have the quccn-si- c bedspread quitted by the machine. It took Joan Jensen, an several employee at hours to stitch the quilt together. If It had been quilted by hand. Johnson said it would have taken her at least a month. Ann and Jon A. Little of West Point own at 1475 S. State. Clearfield and 350 N. Main in Kaysville. They bought the quilting machine two years ago. Little, who also manages the Clearfield store, said many of her customers told her they wanted to make quilts but didn't have the time or the skills to quilt by hand. "Jon and I talked about buying the machine for several years. It was a major investment." she said. Scw-N-Sav- Scw-N-Sav- e, Sew-N-Sa- The cost of machine quilting e starts at $35 for a quilt, said Little. The cost of the fabric, batting and binding arc extra. When the machine introduced into the store, each of the 10 employees tried their hand at it. twin-siz- Little said. "Its a lot harder than it looks." she said. Jensen turned out to be a natural." Little said. 7 Piece Dining Set 72x36 Solid Oak Table With 6 Upholstered Chairs Business Profile The machine can quilt design on a piece of fabric or follow a pattern on a pieced quilt. Jensen can whip out three to four quill a day. unless it's a pieced quill. Then she can only quilt two or three quilts a day. "The star quilt is the hardest." she said. When hit with a star quill, it take Jensen an entire day to complete. Jensen stands at the machine eight hours a day, five days a week from making all sorts of stuff pillows to baby quilts to king-siz- e bedspreads. Sewing home decor is in. said Little. Consumers have very limited choices in most stores and Little said her customers don't want their bedroom to look like their neighbors, Many times, decor like curtains and quilts arent the right size, she said. By sewing, consumers can match their curtains, their pillows, their rugs, their dust ruffles and their quilts. Little said sewing has changed since she got in the business 16 years ago. When she started, cusand tomers were sewing denim jeans. Now' they're sewing crafts as well as home decor items. Sewing is more of a creative outlet." she said. 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