About FFQ

FFQ was founded by Joan Derylak, an avid seamstress and quilter. Joan has been sewing since the age of 7.  Her specialty is tailoring, having tailored a man’s dress suit as well as many ladies business suits for herself. Joan’s late mother wanted her to major in home economics at college to teach sewing in high school.  In the early 70’s this seemed to lack glamour to Joan, so she majored in math and minored in management science at the State University of New York at Geneseo, graduating in 1975. She ended up working as an accountant for many years and started her own payroll service in 1992, serving over 100 clients. After selling the payroll service in 1999, she purchased her first brand new sewing machine, a Bernina. Thinking, boy this is expensive, she wanted to make good use of it. So she joined Nimble Thimbles Quilting Guild in Mauldin, SC with a friend in 2000. She have been quilting ever since. She is also an active member and treasurer of Quilters of South Carolina the SC state guild. As her children are grown, she and her husband of 29 years are at the stage to downsize. So her philosophy is “if I can’t eat it, drink it or wear it, I don’t need it.”  Hence making quiltwear has developed. Specializing in bargello jackets, she does everything on a foundation base from the same jacket pattern (see “Jacket Fitting Class in a bag” in the pattern shop). Joan teaches at many quilt shops in the Carolinas and Georgia. Her most popular class is the ‘Jacket Fitting Class’. Her classes include custom fitting, bargello jackets and scrapwear. She has developed her own quilted jacket pattern as well as design patterns for six different bargello jackets.  She plans to continue teaching, lecturing and developing new and creative ‘figure flattering quiltwear’.

How FFQ Works

A good fit is essential to making a figure flattering garment.  So Joan has developed three types of quilted jacket patterns, one without darts for the average figure, one in a princess style without darts for the petite or slim figure and one with a dart for the fuller figured woman. These patterns are specifically intended to be used for quiltwear, and are designed with only a few seams making the quilt design process easier.  Each design pattern comes with a different jacket pattern included. However, if you have fitting problems or are a full figured woman, we suggest you try the Jacket Fitting Class in a Bag. This pattern is intended to help you get the best fit possible for your figure.   It can be used with ANY quiltwear design pattern you choose, be it one of ours or something else.  It is well worth the time to get a perfect fit.

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