The Patchery Menagerie

  Now that I have made all the birds based on members of my family, I am making birds based on things I know my Mom likes. She likes the col...

I tell my students all the time, "Don't buy fabrics you fall in love with UNLESS you have a definite plan to cut it up and use it i...

 I am opinionated. I believe that all other things being equal, fabric selection determines the success or failure of a quilt.  There are lo...

 I've made a couple more birds for my Mom's bird quilt. Here is a green one. I have made myself a promise that these birds will come...

  This is my Niece's bird. I made this bird back in July, and I am showing it to you again because I am making birds based on family mem...

  I've been moving along with making birds based on my family members for my Mom's bird quilt. This is my nephew. You can see the qu...

I've made another bird for my mother's bird quilt. I had had a pile of blacks with bright colors on my worktable and told myself I h...

I've been sewing the binding on the Blue Ribbon quilt. I have been putting quilts on a card table while I sew the binding. It keeps them...

  I've sewn the Blue Macnas flimsy together.  After I sewed all the blocks into rows, and then chunks, I added the white border. Here it...

  I finished the Green Deco quilt and took it out for Beaty shots. This is my favorite.  It's so gorgeous this weekend, I have to enjoy ...

I'm still wrestling with Sciatica in my hip and while that's getting better, if I sit too long it's really painful, so I do smal...

  I'm BACK!  Last weekend I drove out to Clifton Park NY. (I took the 3 hour 31 minute route. It wound through the mountains in Vermont ...

 I've finished binge watching the entire six seasons of Downton Abbey, and I've rewatched the first two movies. I've seen the la...

  When I have a long row of blocks to sew together, I break it up into smaller chunks.  I've been sewing the Blue Macnas quilt together ...