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Fat Quarter Crazy Quilts!
Learn to make crazy quilts using fat quarters of fabrics, quilting as you go, using the decorative stitches on your sewing machine! Easy and quick & requires almost no sewing or quilting experience. Includes fabric selection advice to make your quilt a part of your home decor, and includes time estimates for the quilts, so that you will know how soon you can have a quilt finished!Crazy Shortcut Quilts Book
12 Quilt designs (including a chapter on designing your own!) from lap to queen sized bed quilt, coordinating pillows and an all-fabric window valance in an 128 page book from authors Sarah Raffuse and Marguerita McManus courtesy of Krause Publications.Here are photos of some of the quilts...
Our Crazy Cutting Technique
New sewers and confident quilters will love this book because it does not rely on traditional piecing methods used for block type quilts. No small bits of fabric (it's magic!), no precise patterns, no templates, almost no precise cutting and virtually no precise sewing (1/4" seams are optional 90% of the time) and each project teaches you how to create a finished quilt in hours! How did we do that? Let us show you!Click here to watch a slideshow of the basic techniques
Decorative Stitch Quilting
Quilt as you go using your sewing machine's decorative stitches! We teach you how to quilt your squares in small manageable pieces with gorgeous threads and as many different stitches as you can create on your machine!With our advice on fabrics, threads and battings, you will get the most from your machine whether it's 20+ years old or brand new, and your machine does all the quilting - no free motion at all.
Why try it? Because we are teaching you how to make a finished quilt......not just another top to stack in the closet.
- You don't have to learn how to "machine quilt" or "free motion quilt" and you won't have to struggle quilting a big quilt in a tiny sewing machine.
- You don't have to hire a quilter to finish your "top". You can have your quilt on display on your sofa or bed in hours!