About me!
 

Hi, my name is JoAnn Hoffman and I live in the Black Hills of South Dakota. I am a sales rep for APQS longarm quilting machines and CompuQuilter .
I had been digitizing embroidery design for over 20 years when I discovered longarm quilting. After purchasing the CompuQuilter system I realized it was just a huge embroidery machine and I couldn't wait to start creating patterns.

The CompuQuilter can be used in three different ways.
1.PANTOGRAPHS........If your main business is edge to edge freehand designs or pantographs, you can easily do 2-3 quilts a day and not get physically tired.
2.CUSTOM........If you combine intricate CompuQuilter designs with freehand, (stitch in the ditch, background fills, crosshatching and meandering) you can do amazing custom quilts in half the time.
3.FOR DESIGNERS........If you are a designer and your customers keep requesting the same custom feathers, dragonflies, curly feather borders, custom overalls, etc., then you can digitize your own personal designs and let CompuQuilter sew them out.

If you want perfect you can digitize perfect, if you want it to look like it was done freehand, you can digitize that look too.

This is just the early stages of this website and I plan on adding more designs weekly.
If you would like to see my Millennium and how CompuQuilter works please give me a call or email me. I can be reached at 605-574-4885 or pahasapa@enetis.net.

My embroidery designs can be seen on www.embroidery.com under Paha Sapa Traders or www.dakota-designs.com

I also can convert Statler Stitcher designs to CompuQuilter format for artists and dealers.

 

CompuQuilter

CompuQuilter
"The best computer-guided quilting system available."

 

With CompuQuilter, you can integrate intricate feather motifs and overall patterns that are perfect in every stitch. Each pattern can be infinitely modified and customized as you desire making each project your own one-of-a-kind creation, instead of a generic computer generated pattern.

Custom and heirloom quilting treatments are a dream to complete with CompuQuilter’s ability to automatically re-size digitized designs, maintain or stretch proportions, and rotate patterns in increments as small as 1 degree.

Quilted designs can be precisely positioned to within .025 of an inch (the size of a needle point) by center points, upper right corner, upper left corner, lower right corner, lower left corner, start of the pattern, etc.

You can tweak and perfect your design to complete satisfaction before sewing a single stitch as you view the chosen pattern inside the actual quilting area directly on the computer screen.

The CompuQuilter lets you switch from standard hand-guided to computer-guided quilting (or vice-versa) in less than 30 seconds.  This system will instantly become the most creative tool in your quilting design imagination.

 

Available for most APQS machines.

CompuQuilter comes complete with computer, display screen, easy-to-learn software, hardware for your quilting machine and continuing free online support. It is available for all new APQS Millennium, Liberty, Freedom and Discovery models. It can also be retrofitted to previously purchased APQS machines.

 Benefits:

  • Lets you incorporate endless design possibilities to make your quilts unique.

  • Automatically re-size designs, maintain or stretch proportions and rotate patterns.

  • The CompuQuilter includes a collection of over 300 patterns to help start your own design gallery.

  • Available for most new and existing APQS machines.