Quilt As You Go, Simply Done

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Sarah Raffuse

Crazy Shortcut Quilts Book

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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 to Sarah Raffuse too, from me, happy dancing in the living room!

Update 3/5/08 – a very considerate lady (Karol) let us know that everywhere she tried to buy the book it was sold out. That was the push I needed to get busy creating a shopping cart for our website. {Have I mentioned how much I don’t like my web program?} So, Sarah is digging into her hoard of books and selling them, via secure shopping cart and secure server, on our web site here, for $22.99 + $4.60 shipping. She’ll autograph the book to you personally or as you direct.

What Sarah’s working on

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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 need to get her some daylight bulbs for photography.

Do you think she should call her blog ‘Sarah Raffuse’ or come up with something else?

Giggles

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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.

Keepsake Catalog

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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 open page” with a very big grin 🙂

Watercolor Quilt in Florals

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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 better with the addition of the two great borders (Sarah’s work again – what a great kid!)

Watercolor Quilts in Batiks

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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 saying something!

I also hate doing borders so my daughter Sarah Raffuse put the fantastic borders on the quilts for me – now I just need to quilt them. What do you think about the batik v. floral?