Category: Decorative Stitches
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Susan H’s Crazy Shortcake Quilt Story
Hi Marguerita, I reached out to you in 2019 with a question about the crazy shortcake quilt I was starting to make for my mother’s birthday. You quickly responded and were very encouraging and supportive. It meant a lot. Unfortunately, my mother passed away a few months before her 97th birthday and I put the…
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Cheryl’s Table Topper
Look at those decorative stitches! We always have fun in class learning to use those gorgeous stitches and pretty threads to do the quilting on our “crazy cut” blocks. Thank you Cheryl for sending a photo to share with everyone!
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Sarah’s Quilt
Sarah Henderson sent me the story about her quilt and a couple of pics and I LOVE it! Here’s her story: I wanted to share a picture of my completed Crazy quilt. Thanks so much for your inspiration, I loved every moment of creating this. I had so.much fun with this. What a great introduction…
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Sarah’s Quilty Bit
When I teach my quilt classes, and write a new quilt-as-you-go book, I start with a little helper that I call a “Quilty Bit”. I make them from several 5″ squares of fabric and batting. I make two “crazy cuts” similar to those in our book Crazy Shortcut Quilts, and then layer those squares with…
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Meet Susan Wilcox Ingersoll
We live at opposite ends of the North American continent. She’s from New Brunswick, Canada and she’s an organic soapmaker and entrepreneur. We’ve emailed a few times, starting with this conversation about the decorative stitch quilting process: I received Crazy Shortcut Quilts for Christmas and am enjoying the book greatly so far. I am working…
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New Quilt Pics!
Stella made her fourth Crazy Shortcut Quilt! On this one, she writes: I have shown the back as it has a rather lovely fabric with ‘wols’ (owls) on it. I went a bit over the top and added two more designs which I knew she would like. One of the seaside to remind her where…
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More Quilts!
I love to receive photos in my email!! Angie in Canada sent me these of her quilt, and she blogged about it! Diane B in Eugene Oregon posted her quilt to her blog and sent photos of her pink quilt and this note: First of all, I have had your book for ages just kept…
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Quilt Photos!
I have a great email from Amy Palmer Henry, showing off her second Crazy Shortcut Quilt! Amy said that this one features a zigzag stitch, but she’s just gotten a new sewing machine with tons of decorative stitches and they sky’s the limit for her next quilts 🙂 Almost immediately an email came in from…
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Two More Quick Quilting Projects …
… that I can’t take credit for either! Judy Salzmann made these great potholders for her girlfriend in South Dakota and Sara in Abu Dhabi sent a pic of her finished tablerunner. She has her handmade items for sale in Sara’s Etsy Shop.
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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…