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| Crazy Shortcut Quilts | 
 enlarge | Authors: Marguerita Mcmanus, Sarah Raffuse
Publisher: Krause Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $22.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 37384
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0896895475
Dewey Decimal Number: 746
EAN: 9780896895478
ASIN: 0896895475
Publication Date: July 6, 2007
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Product Description
This book targets the home decorator who wants to use fabrics as a significant part of their home colour scheme. Learn how to select fabrics for the quilt projects that will complement existing decor. This title provides estimates of time for each step, how to break the projects down into manageable pieces, and suggestions for alternative uses for leftover fabrics, such as lampshades, table skirts, valances etc.
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 crazy shortcut quilts September 9, 2008
Just what I was looking for. a quick easy way to do a unique quilt. will be using this process in our quilt club to make quilts for community projects.
 CRAZY SHORTCUT QUILTS August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I HAVE TO SAY THIS BOOK WASN'T ANYTHING THAT I HOPED IT WOULD BE. I PERSONALLY DIDN'T LIKE ANY OF THE FINISHED QUILTS IN THE BOOK. IF YOU LIKE SCRAPPY QUILTS THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. JUST NOT MY CHOICE.
 "Crazy Shortcut Quilts" is especially appropriate for novice quilt makers April 3, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The quilted blanket and bedspread are American icons and have proved to be enduringly popular with American families for more than two hundred years. Indeed, some of the them are to be found on display in American museums and galleries as works of art. Most are handed down from generation to generation as prized family heirlooms. "Crazy Shortcut Quilts: Quilt As You Go And Finish In Half The Time" is the collaborative work of quilt-making expert Marguerita McManus and quilting enthusiast Sarah Raffuse who show aspiring needlecrafters how they can make crazy quilts in a matter of hours instead of the months it took their grandmothers to accomplish. Clear, easy-to-follow, step-by-step, illustrated instructions are provided for fifteen crazy quilt projects that include wall art, pillows, a queen-size quilt, fabric valances, and accent throws. Enhanced with practical advice on selecting the proper fabrics and choosing the right colors, "Crazy Shortcut Quilts" is also enhanced with useful ideas and tips for utilizing decorative stitches. Combining layers of a quilt in small manageable sections requiring no precise measuring or cutting, "Crazy Shortcut Quilts" is especially appropriate for novice quilt makers and a truly welcome addition to personal and community library Needlecraft reference collections.
Alaskan Quilters shares their Secrets April 1, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The mother/daughter team of Marguerita McManus and Sarah Raffuse have created "Crazy Shortcut Quilts - Quilt as You Go in Half the Time!". But after reading the book, there is much more to it than that! Their techniques can be incorporated into any project - and there are times they should be embraced by every quilter - you just may not know it yet!
Many of us are involved in organizations that are making quilts for kids, babies, soldiers, cancer patients, etc. These are wonderful programs that make us proud to be quilters. But, they also can become expensive. Most of us are quite willing to donate fabric and sew, but few of us have the ability to machine quilt these donations. Paying for the machine quilting has become a problem. Not anymore!
Marguerita and Sarah show you how to piece blocks - quilt them - and THEN sew the quilted blocks together to complete your quilt. Since the quilting follows the seams of the pieced blocks, anyone can do it - no meandering required!
It is the perfect opportunity to use up all of those scraps of batting. And then there is the decorative stitching! Many of us have paid way too much for a sewing machine that had all of the bells and whistles - but don't quite remember what we were planning on doing with all of those stitches! No more! Marguerita and Sarah use these decorative stitches to machine quilt their projects and enhance their quilts. And, as an added bonus, any imperfections are disguised if you stray from the seam line.
The threads can be changed on every seam so you may actually use up THAT stash as well!
Since the blocks are quilted individually - and then sewn together - it is possible for anyone to quilt even a queen sized quilt the very first time! After the initial machine quilting - which is done in manageable sizes - the blocks are sewn together with straight seams. You just roll up the rows and stitch!
So inspiring it's crazy!!! February 29, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is the bomb!!! Yes, Sarah Raffuse and Marguerita McManus have finally put to pen to paper, needles to fabric and created a wonderful guide to helping all of us discover the wonderful shortcut technique of quilting-as-you-go with an equally wonderful method for modern-day crazy quilting, utilizing the 21st century technology of our precision sewing & embroidery machines. They have given us the perfect book to learn how to do it ourselves by breaking down the steps of all the processes and given us beautiful examples to jump-start our own creativity; with the added bonus solution of what to do with all of those fat quarters you have been collecting! I highly recommend this book for every quilter of every skill level. I can't wait for the sequel!!!
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