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Marguerita McManus

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Home: Alaska (April-September), northwestern Arizona (October-March).
Author of of the books: Crazy Shortcut Quilts, Finish (almost) Any Quilt, Sew & Quilt in Comfort, Quilt As You Go {reimagined}, T-Shirt Quilts, Crazy Shortcake

My specialty is quilt–as–you–go and my first book was a best seller for ten years, going into multiple re-prints. My techniques are popular with beginner and experienced quilters because when the project is complete they have a FINISHED quilt! My techniques can be adapted to fit many types of quilting, from crazy quilting to UFO’s—I’d love to show you how! I am passionate about ergonomics and comfort for sewing and quilting and I invented an inexpensive solution that works for all sewing machines. Wouldn’t your guild members benefit from seeing it?

My most popular class is the One Day Doll Quilt. This cute four-block quilt covers it all: crazy cutting, decorative stitch quilting, trimming squarely, joining blocks and rows and my pretty corners technique for binding. Finished quilt is 18″ sq.

The quilt-as-you-go process requires that the blocks be made and quilted before being joined, therefore full quilt workshops are a minimum of 2 days.

Crazy Shortcake Quilt As You Go

My most popular workshop is the 2 day Crazy Shortcake Class. A crib or lap size quilt made from one layer cake (10″ x 10″ squares) and 1 yard of fabric.

This quilt is easy to finish in a 2 day workshop and it covers the crazy cutting, layering and machine quilting using decorative stitches, the 3-point check for trimming, full joining of blocks and rows, and a machine binding with “pretty corners”.

Quilt As You Go ~ A Progression of Techniques Trunk Show – How I use quilt-as-you-go to make fat quarter crazy quilts using the decorative stitches of the sewing machine; to finish UFO’s; to make T-shirt Quilts; to create modern looking quilts; and to make Layer Cake Quilts. This trunk show consists of 30 quilts from all of my books plus several unpublished quilts.

Contact – Visit Marguerita’s Website and watch her videos and contact her at MMQuilts @ gmail.com to contact her with any questions or invitations to appear.

Be sure to tell Marguerita that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Susan Brubaker Knapp

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Home: Charlotte, North Carolina

I am a fiber artist, quilt pattern designer and teacher. Quilting started as my hobby, but has turned into a passion and a business. I teach classes at quilt guilds, at quilt festivals – and occasionally online — and have published patterns and books for my original quilt designs.

I love traditional hand quilting and needleturn appliqué, but have embraced innovative machine techniques. I started making “art quilts” — works of art executed in fabrics and fibers — in 2005. My quilts have won national as well as local awards, and have been exhibited at national and international venues. I have won seven Best of Show awards at three different quilting guilds, with six different quilts.

My work has been featured in several national magazines, in five calendars, and has graced the covers of two issues of Quilting Arts magazine. I am the author of two books – Point, Click, Quilt! Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art (C&T Publishing, 2011), and Appliqué Petal Party (C&T Publishing, 2009).Visit Susan’s Website

Please let Susan know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!