Category: Crazy Shortcut Quilts Book
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Videooooooooooooo
I have been having both fun and absolute total frustration – what a combo! And what can cause that? Either quilting a perfect seam and then finding a pucker on the back (oh, yes that has happened to me many times) or a computer. Heh. So, I bought a video camera that I needed to…
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Quilt Market Houston 2008
We’re back!! It was one of the best times I’ve ever had at Quilt Market! My daughter, Sarah Raffuse, made a great presentation at our Schoolhouse Session (late in the afternoon, so we offered chocolate at the door 🙂 and our Take & Teach Class was SOLD OUT before Market even opened (wow!). Here are…
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Gone to Quilt Market
A few updates without pictures. It’s been rainy and windy here, the snow is gone and now most of the leaves are off the trees. The bear has moved on and the bunnies are back. I managed to get all the kits cut for our Take & Teach class and quilted up 250 teeny tiny…
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I found a Crazy Shortcut Quilt
On the internet…here ooooohhhhh, its a pretty pink one!
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250 Quilties
…5″ square, give or take a quarter inch…. Sarah and I make these for Quilt Market, which we will be attending in less than a month. This year we will have a Take & Teach on Sunday morning as well as a few “in-booth” demos through the weekend and a Schoolhouse session on Thursday. Notice…
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Crazy Shortcut Quilt Workshop at the Valdez Quilt Festival
Whooooowheeeeee!! I had the time of my life!! Sarah and I taught the most fun class I’ve ever been in and the quilters went home with just an hour or two of stitching left to have finished and quilted quilts! And guess what I found in Valdez? Rabbits! 🙂I taught my class on using a…
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Valdez Quilt Festival Sept. 11-14, 2008
We are going to Valdez!! Sarah and I haven’t been there for years and we are looking forward to seeing the town again, cruising through Thompson Pass, taking photos of Bridal Veil Falls and Horse Tail Falls, and maybe finding some salmonberries. I used to drag Sarah (and sometimes her friends and cousins) all over…
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Stitch Envy
Whenever Sarah does a demonstration of our Crazy Shortcut Quilt techniques she mentions “stitch envy”. It happens during class when the students are quilting their squares using the decorative stitches of their sewing machines. They look at the quilters next to them and the stitches they have on their machines, and well, you get the…
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Seams Like Home Quilt Shop
My friends Kathy Harte and Judy Wedemeyer (quilt artists and soon-to-be bloggers 🙂 came by Seams Like Home Quilt Shoppe to say hi to Sarah and I and Judy send us this photo. We had a great time there! The shoppe is h-u-g-e at 10,000 sf. and the classroom is the best I’ve ever seen.…
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Saturday, June 21 in Anchorage, Alaska
Sarah and I will be at Seams Like Home Quilt Shoppe in the new location at the University Center Mall from noon to 3pm on Saturday. Please stop in and say “hi” and I’ll be bringing the bits of my Fuzzy Funky Crazy Shortcut Quilt too – I have a few squares “quilted” and you…