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 🙂
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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 …..
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!
Your Way
I just watched a video of a quilter who insisted a quilting technique is bad and wrong and doesn’t make any sense.
BLEH. This “video quilt show wanna-be” has been quilting for just a couple of years, at best. I’ve been machine quilting, teaching, professionally quilting and been published for fifteen years – and I teach the technique that she disparages.
I sure wish the world were less filled with people who insist that their way is the only way and that everyone else is wrong.
I hope that you do things YOUR way and I know that I will be happy as I continue to do things MY way.
