I loved to piece quilt tops! One day after looking through all of my precious pieces I realized that I had made 17 quilt tops but had never finshed one into a quilt! I’m sure no one else out there has been here before, huh?! I tried to tie a quilt, but realized that wasn’t appropriate for the type of quilts I was making. I then tried hand quilting and after working on it for a few months with only finishing about a 2 square foot area (and not really liking the results either), I decided this technique wasn’t for me. OK, maybe that’s a little too ”PC”, I hated hand quilting and machine quilting. I know there are ladies that love it, but I did not. Of course, since then I have learned that it would have been a lot better if I had taken a class and not tried to teach myself! Anyone else feel this way?

I had seen an ad in a magazine for a Long Arm Quilting Machine and wanted to try it out. So, I convinced my husband, Neff to go with me to a quilt show in California. The machine looked intimidating at first but as soon as I drove it, I knew that it was for me! To say the least, I LOVED IT! Neff looked at the cost and told me I would have to start a business if we were going to get one. I ran ideas through my mind as to what I felt that included and quickly decided that if I quilted for a few of my friends that would be a business. After all, he never said how big the business had to be. He knows me too well! So after my quick “ok” he added that I would need to get a business license. I admit I hesitated. He was serious. But, I still agreed.
This is when I first started using the business name of Going Batty. Neff came up with this idea as a play on words for the batting that goes inside the quilt and that a key to my sanity and life balance was quilting (i.e. not going batty . Our original logo was a sheep that was getting long arm stitched inside a quilt. If you’ve been with us for awhile you may remember that logo!