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Margaret with
her longarm quilting machine, fondly named CeGe.
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,
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