Category: Classes
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Her First Quilt
My friend Rena taught her friends how to make a Crazy Shortcut Quilt. Here’s the note she sent me: I showed it to a couple of ladies at work & they tried it too! Better news- neither one of them had ever quilted!!!! Here is her creation. She is Russian and never did anything like…
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A Happy Quilt and Happy Quilter!
What better way to start the new year than with a huge smile! Rena took a class with me and oh, did we have some laughs. She decided, like so many quilters who use our techniques, to add her own spin to her quilt. She chose to use Minke brand fabric, which is a super…
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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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Quilt As You Go in Alaska
Hi Quilters, I’m freezing my toes off in Anchorage, planning some quilting classes and events for the summer – from Anchorage to Valdez, and maybe even Cordova! If you’ve quilted with Sarah or I in the past, and would like to see the new quilts in person or take an updated techniques class, drop me…
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Introducing The Quilter’s Calendar
… a new website to help connect quilters, guilds and quilting teachers. It’s a searchable calendar of quilting events (mostly guild hosted) that all quilters will find useful. Quilters can easily find events happening in their own (or nearby) states. Quilters who travel can find events in the locations that they are going to –…
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Quilt As You Go Quilt Retreat!
If you are in (or coming to) Alaska and want to take an exclusive class with me, here’s your chance! Only 10 people will be able to sign up for this weekend retreat, which is a fundraiser for a friend. I’ll be bringing quilts from my first 2 books plus quilts I have made for…
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Quilt Class in Palmer, Alaska
Do any of my local friends have a building space or know of a building space that could be used for a weekend quilt class? My friend and fellow Crazy Shortcut Quilting teacher Joanna Stokinger and I are fundraising for her daughter Tessah get to Japan. We will be teaching a multi-day t-shirt quilt class…
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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 …..
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First Place!
Our dear friend Kathy Harte mentors young girls in their sewing. Here’s her email to me from just a few minutes ago: Hi Marguerita and Sarah – I’m so excited about some great – exciting fantastic news ! ! ! I had 5 students last school year who completed their wildly beautiful “Crazy Shortcut Quilts.”…