I have learned that our book has gone into a second printing!! I am so excited! Hurray for us all and a big thanks to Krause and all the shops that stock the book and all the quilters who want to use the decorative stitches on their sewing machines to quilt their own quilts!! Congrats [...] Read more »
What Sarah’s working on
Here’s a peek at a square that Sarah’s working on. She doesn’t know I’m posting it She said she’s going to start her own blog…. If I keep stealing her photos she just might do it! What do you think of the cutting design? The colors of the fabrics are off just a little, I [...] Read more »
Giggles
My daughter uploaded some new photos onto Flickr and I stole this one – I like it. It is of Sarah Raffuse, her husband Ryan (such a nice guy!) and my granddaughter Audrey with a nice clean nose hehehehehe I think they were having some fun with the timer option on the camera. Read more »
Keepsake Catalog
Here’s a scan from the Keepsake Quilting Catalog showing our book! Take a look at the “Going Mod” fabrics on the opposite page – aren’t they great! They would make a great crazy shortcut quilt. Guess the first thing Sarah said when she saw the catalog……”I see they chose MY quilt to feature on the [...] Read more »
Watercolor Quilt in Florals
Here’s an older top that I did using Dina Pappas’s method of fusing the fabric squares to a lightweight gridded stabilizer. She loves florals so that’s what we all (in her class) used. I don’t love florals that much, so I tried Dina’s technique in batiks. This is still a pretty quilt and made even [...] Read more »
Watercolor Quilts in Batiks
Watercolor quilts are usually made from floral fabrics, but I hate florals, so I used batiks.My friend, Dina Pappas, wrote a book about making watercolor quilts using a foundation stabilizer with gridded lines on it. I used her technique to make these quilts and what a breeze!! Even MY seams are straight – and that’s [...] Read more »
Keepsake Quilting Catalog Spring 2008
Our book, Crazy Shortcut Quilts, is in the Keepsake Quilting Catalog!!!!! Yahooooooooo!!!!!!!! I LOVE those guys! They also bought my very first pattern years ago. Here’s the linky, happy days, happy days!! Crazy Shortcut Quilts Book Thank you, thank you Keepsake Quilting from Sarah Raffuse and Marguerita McManus! Read more »
