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.” [...] Read more »
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 [...] Read more »
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” [...] Read more »
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 [...] Read more »
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 [...] Read more »
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 peek [...] Read more »
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. Read more »
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, fuzzy [...] Read more »
Quilt as you go with Amy, Pat and Suzzett!
Amy, (here’s her blog post), Pat (link to Pat’s blog) and Suzzett’s daughter Lindsey (here is Suzzett’s blog) all posted about their Crazy Shortcut Quilts – -with photos!! I am so happy to see them all Thank you for showing us your quilts and if I missed someone, please let me know at marguerita.mcmanus[@]gmail.com Read more »
