The Patchery Menagerie

The flimsy Pizzazz, is complete. I think I counted about 40 unique fabrics before I got confused. I really like it. After I put it back up o...

  I named the quilt. It is called "Black Abacus" and that's me with it, above. I was trying to get a crumpled picture for Juli...

  I added a narrow border around the edges of the quilt. I used eight of the light fabrics that were already in the quilt. I arranged them q...

  I have sewn the last quarter of the quilts together, and then sewed the bottom two quarters together so now all I need is to sew the two h...

  I sewed up the second quarter of the black and white scrap slab triangle quilt. Although when I add the side white triangles I press them ...

  Here is the top left quarter of the quilt, all sewn together. Here is the finished quarter next to the rest of it. I like this a lot. This...

  I've started sewing the black and white scrap slabs quilt together. Since none of the blocks are sewn together, I start by sewing one ...

  I've been spending time with the black and white scrap slab triangles quilt in the studio. I'm pretty happy with most of it. As yo...

  Much as I like the quilts I make, I try not to do the same thing twice. I really, really, really love the All Together Now quilt, and alt...

I keep telling people that I love the combination of Black & White, and that I love checkerboards. For example, did you know that every ...

  I just love black-and-white. (Did you know every cat I have ever owned has been black and white?) I wrote the other day that a white bindi...

Students always ask me how long it takes me to make a bird. If I have the fabrics already chosen, it hardly takes any time at all, but if I ...

From time to time it's necessary to do some stash replenishment. I felt the need for more black on white fabrics for my scrap slab trian...

Never in a thousand years would I have expected a post about painting my oil tank to generate such interest! I had two concerns. The ta...

THIS is the oil tank behind my house. The one I have to paint . For your reference, the window on the far right is the window at the end o...