I started a publishing company! I publish my books in print, via Amazon.com and Lightning Source, and electronically via downloadable PDF (ejunkie) and for the Kindle.

Adapt old projects and start new ones, using my tried and true, very popular, quilt-as-you-go techniques. Perfect for quilters who want to finish their UFO’s, blocks, tee shirt quilts and tops without having to struggle with machine quilting the whole quilt on their home sewing machine. For the modern quilter who loves a challenge, this book show how to adapt new patterns to quilt as you go. Either way, you’ll be finishing your quilts in no time.

I wrote Sew & Quilt in Comfort after the overwhelmingly positive response to my videos on YouTube about ergonomics. The book shows how to create a comfortable, ergonomically correct sewing and quilting area, with easily obtainable materials and no power tools. You’ll also learn how to easily adjust the area for machine quilting a large quilt. The book has several 5 star reviews on Amazon and 2 pages of praise received from quilters who have used my system to improve their comfort and their quilting.


Crazy Shortcut Quilts is a quilt book that my daughter Sarah Raffuse and I wrote in 2007 about 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.


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 50 so far and about 625,000 views. In November 2010 I was accepted as a YouTube Partner on this channel and in July 2011 I was accepted as Partner on Quilting Videos, a second channel that I created to help promote other quilt designers.


I started Quilting Videos as a way to showcase quality quilting and sewing videos that teach technically correct or innovative techniques.

Buchanan Fishing is a site that I built and maintain for the commercial (Wild Alaskan Salmon) fishing family of Tom Buchanan. I worked the corkline on the F/V Dolly B (seiner) in 2003 and 2004.



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.

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….