Crazy Shortcut Quilts: Quilt as You Go and Finish in Half the Time! - Softcover

Marguerita McManus; Sarah Raffuse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896895475 ISBN 13: 9780896895478

Publisher: Krause Publications, 2007

Synopsis

Crazy Shortcut Quilts combines the look of a "Crazy Quilt" with the ease of quilt-as-you-go, so that every single quilt is unique and yet very easily made!

The quilt as you go process uses the decorative stitches of the sewing machine to do the quilting.  There's no need to learn free motion quilting when your sewing machine can do all the quilting for you, using beautiful threads and decorative stitches!

From beginners to experts, all quilters will love the opportunity to have a finished quilt in just hours, using small, manageable pieces of fabrics that are joined in a unique and soft manner.

The book contains solid advice about fabric selection to coordinate your quilts with your home décor, and provides time estimates for finishing each quilt.

Learn how to make a gorgeous, reversible, quilt using fabrics that enhance your decor, quilted with all the beautiful stitches on your sewing machine.

Most quilt books teach you how to make just a quilt top, and offer no fabric selection advice.

Crazy Shortcut Quilts approaches quilting from a "new rules" point of view, teaching you about fabrics, cutting, a new way of creating a "crazy block", and unique quilting tips.  The sashing method looks tailored and smooth, and yet is simple and easy!

Experience the joy of making your first completely finished quilt in a very short time, and the satisfaction of finally having a use for all the gorgeous decorative stitches that you sewing machine has!

About this title

From the Author

Over the years we've made about one hundred of these quilts, and we've expanded the techniques to two new books as well. We often hear from quilters who have made many, many quilts using the methods taught in the book, and quite a few have gone on to teach the process at their local quilt shops, community schools, quilt guilds, girl scouts and more.

If you really want to finish your own quilts, and you'd like to use the decorative stitches on your sewing machine, this is the book for you!
Check out our two newer books for more project ideas:  The book "Finish (almost) Any Quilt" teaches how to use our quilt-as-you-go process on traditional block patterns and "Quilt As You Go {reimagined} teaches you how to make modern looking quilts (it's all about showing off the fabrics) using slight twists to the block joining process.

Both authors, Sarah and Marguerita, blog and post on Facebook and we invite you to visit our website, where we feature photos of quilts made using the methods in our book that are sent to us by our quilting readers.

Contact information for us is on our website and we'd love to hear from you!  Questions?  Email us!  If you've made one of our quilts, we would just love to feature it on the blog and website!

About the Author

Marguerita started out as a machine quilter using a home sewing machine, and then went professional, using longarm, mid-arm and short arm systems and finally settled into quilt-as-you-go and writing and publishing books.

Sarah loves making new designs in the Crazy Shortcut process and she makes many quilts a year for herself, friends and for charity. Sarah lives in Anchorage, Alaska with her husband and two daughters and is a busy stay at home mom.

Marguerita is now retired from full time work and she enjoys traveling, giving trunk shows of finished quilts, writing, publishing and making videos.

You can see their most recent quilts, projects and books on their website & blog and on their Facebook Page.

Edition details

• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0896895475
• ISBN 13: 9780896895478
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128