Category: Nice things

  • Need Help with your Sewing?

    Meet Debbie (from Ohio) of Squiggly Twigs Designs! She emailed me (you know that I love email, right?) and she asked if she could use my video about chain piecing on her site. Of course I said yes, then immediately went to her blog to find out more about her. WOW! She is offering FREE…

  • Really Great Inspiration

    I love reading Seth Godin and so of course I downloaded his (free!) new ebook as soon as I could. It’s called What Matters Now. Since I am sharing things I love, this video really speaks to me. It is on TED and it is William Kamkwamba talking about how he Harnessed The Wind. I…

  • First Place!

    Our dear friend Kathy Harte mentors young girls in their sewing. Here’s her email to me from just a few minutes ago: Hi Marguerita and Sarah – I’m so excited about some great – exciting fantastic news ! ! ! I had 5 students last school year who completed their wildly beautiful “Crazy Shortcut Quilts.”…

  • Happiest Mother’s Day to Everyone 🙂

    On a long drive home from Anchorage yesterday Tom and I had an interesting conversation. I will admit that being fifty has changed my perspective a bit. We talked about our “bucket list” and I challenged him to make a list (I will too) and we will compare them next weekend. That should be an…

  • Meet Judy

    My friend Judy Wedemeyer is a quilt artist. She’s also one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. I was a newbie to quilt pattern designing, about fifteen years ago, and she went out of her way to give me tips, business contacts, advice and encouragement when I thought I’d created “the next hot thing”…

  • Would you consider teaching?

    Today I went to my local library, after posting notices at the grocery stores, library bulletin board and on my local online newspaper, to teach anyone who showed up the basics of a sewing machine – for free. I’ve given lectures about quilting before and was surprised at how many of the attendees had never…

  • Applique Quilt Book Winners!

    Sarah Vanderburgh and Delys are the two lucky winners of Kay’s Book Easy Applique Blocks. Don’t give up if you didn’t win, just hop over to Kay’s blog and follow her Book Tour because today she’s with quilter extraordinaire Gina Halliday and Gina is giving away a book too! Thank you for signing up for…

  • Book Giveaway for Easy Applique Blocks

    My pal Kay Mackenzie asked if I would like to be included in her internet Book Tour and I jumped at the chance! What is so cool about going to Quilt Market and meeting other designers and authors is learning that they are just nice quilters, like every other quilter 🙂 Kay sent me a…

  • You. Can. Do. It.

    You. You know who you are! Can. Able, capable, willing, knowledgeable. Do. Accomplish, achieve, attain, succeed. It. Everything, anything, exactly what you want.

  • Great Stash Quilt and Tutorial

    I want to make this quilt! Made by Liz Harvatine, she calls it “Confetti” and I *love* it! Here’s her tutorial, which I found very understandable and I have TONS of scraps. This is right up my alley! Thank you Liz for my next project 🙂 Today I am putting the sashing on my funky,…