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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.

Things are hoppin' here at the Texas Quiltery. I am busy designing and packaging my patterns, scheduling quilt shows and workshops, getting our sample quilts made, and helping quilters any way I can. You can shop our online store for pieced patterns, crayon patterns, appliqué patterns, pre-embroidery blocks, fat pack fabrics and yard pack fabrics. I 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! I 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, I will add them to my inventory, so keep checking back often.

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Margaret