Category: Crazy Shortcut Quilts Book
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Mystery Donor
You angel! Thank you for your donation to Charity:water! I am working on 3 projects that I want to use to both provide new products to quilters AND to generate revenue to causes that I believe in: water and micro-loans. I have been investigating Kiva.org and I love what they are doing, however I would…
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Diannia made her first Crazy Shortcut Quilt!
It’s queen size (do you believe that – she’s new to quilting!) for her son Brad. She and I have been emailing and chatting, sharing stories and ideas, and I think I am going to try and talk her into blogging…. (I am SO bad – I do that to *so many* quilters – -but…
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Funky Fuzzy Shortcut Quilt is DONE !
I just love that word – DONE! Whoooo Hoooo! This will be another donation quilt, even though I love it with all my heart, the thought that it might make a person happy and benefit a child is also one of the reasons I love it. BUT, until the CASA auction it is going to…
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Quilt as you go with Amy, Pat and Suzzett!
Amy, (here’s her blog post), Pat (link to Pat’s blog) and Suzzett’s daughter Lindsey (here is Suzzett’s blog) all posted about their Crazy Shortcut Quilts – -with photos!! I am so happy to see them all 🙂 Thank you for showing us your quilts and if I missed someone, please let me know at marguerita.mcmanus[@]gmail.com
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New Fabric!
Oh what a great trip to Anchorage! To visit my favorite quilt shop (Seams Like Home Quilt Shoppe) and see the familiar faces and the new, gorgeous fabrics. Heaven!! Then Sarah arrived with granddaughter Audrey and the *real* fun began 🙂 Confession: I do not shop for fabric. I have asked (that being the polite…
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Amy
I’ve been chatting with Amy, who has been making her first Crazy Shortcut Quilt. She had a bit of a problem with the sashing and we’ve been emailing back and forth about that and the fact that her husband made her a quilting table, just like mine but hers is *PINK*! Hop on over to…
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Updated demo video
I updated the video that shows the Crazy Shortcut Quilts demo. I finally got Sarah to film some footage (talk about pulling teeth!) and so I re-did the whole thing. Originally, all the videos were supposed to be “just for fun” and I had planned on taking a few comments and then re-doing them. Well,…
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Funky Fuzzy Shortcut Quilt
I took a video of me doing the stitching – – couching down the yarn:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16RLB3gPDxU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1]
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StyleList Interview!
We made it to the big time! Writer Mallory Whitfield wrote about our book, webs and Etsy shop for StyleList Magazine Blog. When I first found this site I spent hours there! Here’s our interview…
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Quilting for a Very Good Cause
My daughter Sarah and I love to donate quilts to the CASA program for their Quilt Auction each November. We also use the auction to see and visit with quilters that we only see once a year – -at the auction! I look forward to seeing my pals Kathy Harte and Judy Wedemeyer and Ruth…