The Patchery Menagerie

  Since I am giving the Blue Ribbon quilt to a friend, I decided I had to make another blue and white quilt for my table. So I gathered up s...

  I finally got back into the studio. It was messy, so I was avoiding it. Anyway I cleared off the crap that was all the tables and put it a...

  The lecture and workshop for the Connecticut Piecemakers went really well. There was a big group at my talk, and had a lot of fun at the w...

  My friend Pam took me out to dinner for my birthday and as we were catching up she told me about her church group's plans to raise mon...

  What do you do when you've packed quilts that normally hang on the wall so you can bring them to a talk you're giving? Do you allo...

I've finished the Needle in a Haystack quilt. I haven't taken beauty shots of it yet. I've been preparing for my talk in Connect...

  I'm finally working on the binding of the Needle in a Haystack quilt.  It's much easier when I can "watch" tennis at the...

 I've sewn up the top of the Sherbet Macnas quilt. This photo shows the colors more accurately. Here it is all sewn up on the design wal...

I'm feeling a lot better. My friend Cherie tells me this variant of Covid is called Razor Blade Throat and I can certainly attest to tha...

  I've finished the layout of the pink/orange quilt I will call Sherbet. I've started to sew it together. I think it's going to ...

  Believe it or not, the toe doesn't hurt. (At least not yet.) I was able to spend some time in the studio cutting the light blocks for ...

  The guys are back, and they are painting my dining room. I got a text while I was in California that they would be there the day after I g...

 The South Beach Botanic Garden is located not far from my son's family. They love it, so I gift them with a family membership each year...

So I am not in Kansas .  Don’t think I’ve ever been to Kansas. No, that’s the Pacific Ocean. And that’s my granddaughter with me, having bru...