My Sites

Crazy Shortcut Quilts is a quilt book that my daughter Sarah Raffuse and I wrote on how to make fat quarter crazy quilts using a quilt-as-you-go method that uses the decorative stitches of the sewing machine to do the quilting.

I built the website and the blog, on several platforms over the years, and now it resides on WordPress.org using the Frugal theme.




Quilt News is a site I built originally to help new and under publicized designers get some internet face time. It is evolving and I am not quite sure where it’s going.

Quilt Designers Blog Ring is a ring I started to help new quilt designers get some connectivity with each other and to bring attention to our blogs, our designs and our quilt endeavors.




Crazy Shortcut Quilts YouTube Channel is something I started at the urging of my friend Margie Wallace of Quilters Candy Shoppe. She convinced me that video is a good thing. I started with my funky, cheap sewing and quilting table, making just about every mistake a new videographer could make! I learn with each vid I post, and I’ve got 24 so far. I try to post at least 1 new vid a month.


I was disappointed at lack of quality videos on YouTube, in fact the volume of bad information in some of the quilt videos that I found on YouTube depressed me. I started Quilting Videos as a way to showcase quality videos that shared technically correct or innovative techniques.


I have written two lenses at Squidoo.com, the most popular is a full tutorial on my “Cheap Sewing and Quilting Table” and the second one is about a motivational lens about machine quilting on a DSM, with my 2 cents thrown in about longarm and midarm quilting systems


I am have a great deal of fun on Instructables! What a great crowd over there I’ve written about what wonderful treasures old sewing machines are.

I put a fuller one up at Squidoo, same topic just more in depth. It’s over here….