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Texas Quiltery

Margaret with her longarm quilting machine, fondly named CeGe.

I’m a piecer, quilting instructor, longarm quilter, designer, and a lover of all things relating to quilts! I am a fourth generation Texas quilt artist and my family says I was born with a needle and thread in my hand!. Any kind of needle...clothing, crochet, needlepoint, cross stitch, embroidery, and yes, quilting. At the age of three I learned to crochet from a neighbor lady. I constructed my first dress for myself at the age of eight, and during my Junior and Senior years of high school, won first-place prizes with garments I constructed for the “Make-It-Yourself-With-Wool” contest.

After I married my husband, Ben, we lived in Houston where I owned a needlepoint and counted cross-stitch studio. I painted canvases, taught classes, and did custom finishing. In 1980 we moved to Austin and I put all my other passions on hold after becoming totally hooked on quilting. I had spent almost a year marking around templates and scissor cutting my first official quilt...a king size Log Cabin quilt! I was so tired of working on that top that I put it away and began working on other quilt projects. I couldn’t get enough...fabric was brought in by the bags full...books by the dozens...and block-of-the-month kits were everywhere! I moved from spare bedroom to the next larger spare bedroom as my passion grew. In the early ‘90s, I decided I had to start teaching quilting classes to support my habit! I taught at several shops around the Central Texas area and gave trunk-shows and lectures at guilds. During that time (1994 to be exact) I pulled out the box I had stored my first quilt in and decided it was time to finish it. I hand quilted around every log and vowed when it was finished never to do that again! At the time I was teaching beginners basic quilting and told them to never give up...so what if it takes 14 years to finish a quilt...you’re doing something you enjoy and that’s okay!

In 1999, a five-year dream came true when I purchased a Gammill longarm quilting machine and opened the doors to the Texas Quiltery. That first year I quilted 154 quilts for friends and students...not a bad start! I had put my longarm machine in my husband’s home-office (poor man had to take a corner in the master bedroom) which I quickly outgrew.

Then in June, 2001, the quilt shop where I had been doing most of my teaching closed, so I turned to the internet. I had already been designing quilt patterns and writing the instructions for classes I taught, so starting my own pattern business seemed like the natural thing to do. By this time I had quilting stuff in almost every room in the house and in self defense, Ben decided it was time I have a studio. In January, 2002, I moved into our new, spacious studio and we created our website and shopping cart to sell our patterns and things.

Today I have a very dear friend, Linda, helping me in the studio and as you will see while making your way around our site, things are hoppin' here at the Texas Quiltery. We are busy designing and packaging our patterns, scheduling quilt shows and workshops, getting our sample quilts made, and helping quilters any way we can. You can shop our online store for pieced patterns, crayon patterns, appliqué patterns, pre-embroidery blocks, fat pack fabrics and yard pack fabrics. We have now added all the supplies you need to make your own "Appliqué With A Box Of Crayons" quilt (AKA Crayon Quilt), including the Hottest quilt embellishment...Swarovski® Hot-Fix Crystals! We also carry all the tools you need to add the Hot-Fix Crystals to your quilts...the BeJeweler ®, right-angle-tip tweezers and triangle bead trays. As new things come out that fit our line of quilting, we will add them to our inventory, so keep checking back often.

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Margaret & Linda