Marty McFly

Quilt Designer & Longarm Quilter

marty.mcfly@example.com✚ +1 (555) 274-6109
doequilts.example.com✚ Lancaster, PA

The Backing

I draft and piece quilts for a living, and I have finished 320 commissioned tops over 14 years. I teach a rotating block-of-the-month class to about 40 students, and I run two longarm machines out of a converted barn studio. When a pattern does not lie flat, I take it apart and re-cut it rather than press the wrinkle out.

Piece Work

Studio Owner & Head Quilter

2016 – Present

McFly Quilts, Lancaster

Designed and finished 180 commissioned quilts, from crib size to king, with turnaround held under 6 weeks.
Wrote 24 pieced-block patterns and sold 9,400 printed copies through local shops and mail order.
Cut fabric waste from 14% to 5% per project by drafting cutting layouts before touching the rotary blade.

Longarm Quilter for Hire

2013 – 2016

Bird-in-Hand Fabric Co-op

Quilted 260 customer tops on a 26-inch longarm, matching thread and density to each pieced design.
Kept a running fault log that dropped re-stitch requests to under 3% across two busy seasons.

Shop Assistant & Sample Maker

2010 – 2013

Weaver's Notions, Intercourse PA

Pieced 70 store samples a year to show finished blocks beside the bolts of calico.
Sorted and re-tagged a 900-bolt fabric wall by color value so customers could match tones on sight.

Notions & Tools

Half-square triangles Log cabin piecing Longarm free-motion Foundation paper piecing Color value sorting Pattern drafting EQ8 quilt software Rotary cutting layouts Hand binding Teaching & workshops

Learned It

A.A.S. Textile & Surface Design · Pennsylvania College of Art & Design · 2008 – 2010

Certificate, Longarm Machine Quilting · APQS Training, Iowa · 2012