About Comfort and Joy
Our Mission
Our Products
Our Mission
At Comfort and Joy, our mission is to provide the highest quality longarming services and custom quilted products to our customers. We strive to inspire and empower quilters of all levels by offering a welcoming and supportive environment.
Our Team
Our Products
Our Mission
Let me introduce "Comfort and Joy". Karen and Julie are cousins...6 weeks apart. When they say your best childhood friends are your cousins, they are absolutely right! Karen is "Comfort". She is steady, stable and always compassionate. Karen is logical, BRILLIANT and loyal. When you are with her, she touches your soul with her peac
Let me introduce "Comfort and Joy". Karen and Julie are cousins...6 weeks apart. When they say your best childhood friends are your cousins, they are absolutely right! Karen is "Comfort". She is steady, stable and always compassionate. Karen is logical, BRILLIANT and loyal. When you are with her, she touches your soul with her peaceful nature. Julie is "Joy". She is impulsive, silly, and always makes you laugh. Julie finds the adventure in everyday activities. Julie will convince you to stomp in the puddles and dance in the rain.
Our Products
Our Products
Our Products
We carry a wide variety of ready-made quilts in all sizes. We would BE HONORED to take your special requests to make YOUR custom quilt perfect for YOU. Our longarm services have a remarkably short turn around time. We look forward to making your quilt dreams a reality!
Options, options, options!
How to get your quilt to us
We offer OPTIONS for taking delivery of your quilt!
*If you are local to Traverse City Michigan, you can make an appointment to drop your quilt off to Julie.
*If you are local to Bay City Michigan, you can make an appointment to drop your quilt off to Karen.
*If you are NOT local, you can drop your quilt through USPS
Preparing for longarming
trim
stay-stitch
Press
Please take a few moments to turn your quilt top over. Look at the back closely. Clip any dark threads. There is NOTHING more frustrating than getting a quilt finished, only to see a dark thread showing through from between the top and the batting. The 10 minutes that it takes to snip them off is well worth it.
Press
stay-stitch
Press
Take just a wee bit of time and be sure your top is pressed. It doesn't have to be perfect. I can make adjustments while it is on my machine for fold lines, etc. I CAN'T do a darned thing about a quilt that looks like it came out of the laundry hamper, though. If you are providing your own backing, please take a look at that also. I can work out fold lines with a combination of pressure, water-mist, and a little heat. If your backing has deep creases and wrinkles in it, it just may still have those after I am done quilting it!
stay-stitch
stay-stitch
communication
If your edges are pieced, do us BOTH a favor and run a stay-stitch around the perimeter of your quilt. That simply keeps your piecing from coming apart at the edges when I apply a little pressure.
communication
measure your top.
communication
I don't care if your top isn't perfect. If you are proud of it, I'm proud of you FOR it! MANY of my quilts are NOT perfect. That is how I learned to be a good longarmer...quilting my own stuff! I have gotten tons of experience with "naughty" quilts. Just talk to me about it. If your seams aren't lying flat...let me know. If you have waves in the borders, let me know. If you just tossed something together for a last-minute gift...let me know! I can work with almost anything, as long as we talk about it and manage both of our expectations!
measure your top.
measure your top.
measure your top.
It's funny how quilts are size and shapeshifters! Please measure your top (along the top, middle, and bottom...just like you would to add a border). Just because your pattern TELLS you it will be a certain size, doesn't mean it actually comes out that way.
Check your quilt for "square". If it isn't square, and you can't make it square without losing all of your hard work...it's ok. Just TELL me so that I can adjust for that. I can often pull your quilt closer to square when I roll it on my frame.
MARK which side of your quilt is the top, if you intend your quilt to be directional!
Do all of those things for your backing! PLEASE, if at all possible, if you have to piece your backing, make the seams go horizonally! I can accommodate for vertical seams if I HAVE to, but I surely prefer not to!
Your backing MUST be 6 inches wider/longer than your top. If you KNOW you have a "wonky" top...just give me a bit more than that!
Shipping
measure your top.
measure your top.
Print off your intake form and fill it out as completely as possible. The most important part is the contact information. I NEVER want a quilt to arrive on my doorstep and not know who it belongs to!
Be sure that you enclose ALL of your fabrics in a plastic bag prior to shipping! It would be dreadful if the courier left your precious quilt in a rainstorm! Make sure it is protected.
Once your quilt arrives at my home, I will place all of your goodies in a plastic tote, labeled with your name. I will contact you to let you know it has arrived safely.
If you are shipping your quilt:
Julie Light
1544 White Oak Lane
Interlochen, MI 49643
Be mesmerized by the magic stitcher!
Watch the magic!
Computerized designs come to life when paired with a lovely quilt top!
Family heirlooms are simply one small step away.
We can take what your mom or grandmom started years ago, and turn it into a work of art to be handed down through the generations.
We can turn your project into perfection
Chat with us about your unfinished projects!
Enhance your work
Quilting simply enhances the amazing quilt top that YOU created!
Quilting is a family tradition
Don't worry! We won't have the little people quilting YOUR quilts (just yet...unless you want them to!) Kain Elliot is 6 years old in this video, and adores sewing on the Singer Heavy Duty...and longarming his own creations!
Borders and More
This was a border that I PURPOSEFULLY created with about 2 inches of fullness, just so I could learn to deal with wavy borders.
Churn Dash
Ahhhhh.....another beautiful quilt!
Beautiful bouquets
Who doesn't love fresh spring bouquets on their bed?
Beauty and the beasts
Some of us do our best work late at night...with a glass of wine, furry beasts, and piles and piles of fabrics everywhere!