Throughout
her career Margaret has taught the idea of “reach for the unexpected” in
each quilt that you make; make it a little bit different than the last
ones you have completed—in the complexity of design, in the way the
design changes as your eye roams across the surface, in the number of
colors and/or values you use in a given project. Her mantra on color is,
“never use two fabrics when you can use twenty”!!
Known for combining sets of quilt
blocks in innovative—but doable—ways, Margaret shares her knowledge in
her “Smashing Sets for Sampler Blocks” book.
Margaret teaches with humor,
enthusiasm, and sincere encouragement of quiltmakers at all levels of
skill and experience. She encourages quilters at whatever stage they
are, to “reach for the unexpected” in their quilts. and assists students
in achieving things they didn’t know they could.
Easy Pieces:
Creative Color Play with Two Simple Quilt Blocks was published by C & T
Publishing (Lafayette, CA) in September 1998, and Smashing Sets:
Exciting Ways to Arrange Quilt Blocks in fall of 2000. At the
International Quilt Market in Houston, she launched her AnglePlay™
Templates, for rotary cutting the elongated triangle shape with perfect
piecing results. The book AnglePlay Blocks (C & T Publishing) was
introduced, as well as a design CD (with 309 AnglePlay™ blocks) produced
by Electric Quilt Company, called EQ5 AnglePlay Blocks.
The templates are available in
sets, including design booklets with patterns for 3 quilts and 21
blocks.
