Ten New Quilt Photos in the Gallery

Take a peek in our quilt Gallery for quilts from Sara in Abu Dhabi (YES!! Abu Dhabi!) , Sonja in North Carolina, who made up her own design, Teacher Jamie in Alabama, and Teacher Jenny in Surrey, England. Thank you SO MUCH for letting me see and share your quilt photos

Happy Things!

Check out this great video! It will put a big smile on your face

What’s Your Favorite Decorative Stitch?

It sometimes seems like I spend more time daydreaming over my decorative stitches than I do actually using them – and I use them a LOT! No matter what quilt I am making, I tend to come back to using a few stitches regularly. Here’s one of my favorites – if you looked closely you would find it used more than once on most of my quilts

What is your favorite stitch? Satin stitch? Flowers? My friend Sandra has a “crowns” stitch that I am very envious of – my machine doesn’t have that one!

Big Ruler is On Sale

Hi Quilters, if you have put off buying the big 20 1/2″ ruler but you are sure you are going to make another Crazy Shortcut Quilt, now’s the time to go get it. I paid almost $50 for mine, but they are on sale [online at JoAnn's] for $19.99. I am thinking about buying two more! I just love these rulers and use them on all of my quilts, not just our crazy shortcut ones.

Happy quilting! Marguerita

Meet Katrina

She is a Crazy Shortcut Quilts teacher and she has some of her student’s quilt posted on her blog as well as a few other gorgeous quilts! Take a peek …..

Introducing ‘Roly Poly’ – a 2½″ Strips Quilt

Here is our way to use your 2½″ strips – Scrappy, Jelly Roll or Bali Pops! I designed this years ago and then tossed the drawings aside. Sarah took them, make the quilt and I just fell in love with it! It’s just gorgeous!

Our friend Laura McDonnel asked me one day if we had ever thought about doing a design with 2½″ strips and she was happy to hear that Sarah had already made one because she wanted the pattern immediately The problem was, we never really wrote it down.

So, enter two of my pals from the Stashbusters group on Yahoo, who I begged for help (many thanks to Trudy and Michele!). They made up some strip sets for me and Laura grabbed her pre-cut rolls and we started cutting and quilting.

This is a very quick to make top, but if you use all your decorative stitches, like Sarah did on hers, that takes a bit of time. I am sure she quilted a few squares a day (there are sixteen squares in her quilt) and was done in no time, with absolutely elegant results.












I am still working through mine and Laura is almost finished with hers, but here’s a tiny preview from me:

I am also learning how to make my photos look better, and how to write better downloadable patterns. I would LOVE to hear your comments and suggestions and most of all, I wish you fun and happiness in your quilting!

You can download The Roly Poly Quilt Pattern here.

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 help for people with sewing issues!!

So, In addition to checking out her blog and seeing her great patterns (too cute for words) I read about how she’s helping people with sewing problems and I am impressed!

Her offer is only good for another week, so dig out that old pattern you were working on and drop her a note about the reason you tossed it into a drawer a year ago.

I love people who help others!! Yay Debbie!!

This is just fascinating

Is it spring yet?

This is the second halibut boat I’ve seen leaving the bay today. It’s warm (for Seward) 37 degrees or so.

The snow is melting and the bunnies are usually waiting for me on the doorstep when I get home from work.

I am working on moving things around (spring fever?) and cleaning and sorting stuff.

Awesome Amy!

My friend Amy has posted another beautiful Crazy Shortcut Quilt on her blog. Take a peek!

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