Welcome to the home page of quilt designer and author Sally Schneider of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sally has been quilting since 1971, and has made several hundred quilts since then, mostly by machine, although she has two completely hand-made quilts to her credit.
A specialist in scrap quilts and built-in borders, she is the author of a total of ten books, three of which are still in print. Her eleventh book is in progress right now, and will be published in January 2013. It is titled Quilts Fit for a Queen (or a King) and features king and queen sized scrap quilts.
Sally's newest book was released in Sept. 2009. Crazy for Scraps is published by Martingale and Company, That Patchwork Place, and is a compilation of the best quilts of her previous works for Martingale -- Scrap Happy, ScrapMania, and Scrap Frenzy. It includes nineteen quilts, two of them are brand new, and several others have been remade.
Savvy Sets for Scrappy Blocks was released in October, 2007. It includes 12 quilts all in Sally's signature style; 6 of them have pieced sashing strips and 4 have alternating blocks, techniques that can change your quilt from OK to Ooooooh. It also includes information for making the blocks, sashings and alternating blocks mix and match or adaptable to your blocks.
Sally's other specialty is Built-In Borders; her book on that subject is Designing With Built-In Borders. With this method, you can make complex pieced borders as blocks, rather than long strips that may or may not fit your quilt. Sally has re-designed ten different borders that can be made using this block method.
She also has a line of Built-In Border patterns --each pattern has directions for a quilt in 3 or 4 sizes. All patterns havecrib/lap, twin, and queen-size quilts; several of them also have wall hanging/tablerunner options.
Sally has been active in the quiltmaking field as a teacher since 1980, as a quilt book editor from 1995-1998, and in 1999, she served as a selection panelist for the 20th Century's 100 Best American Quilts. She was nominated as one of theAmerican Quilter's Society's All American Teachers, and in 2007 and 2010 she was anominee for Professional Quilter magazine's Professional Teacher of the Year.
For more information please go to: Sally Schneider Designs