The Patchery Menagerie

  The Fifty-Eight Carats quilt is finished. It is named because there are 58 unique prints in the quilt. Each is used only once. It is not m...

 It's my birth month, and that means I have to register my car and get it inspected. So on Saturday I brought my car to the dealership. ...

  I watched the Super Bowl wearing my Tom Brady jersey. I now have about five linear feet to go before I finish the binding. Then I will sew...

  I've worked my way around the quilt, and now I am on the third side. I've watched both seasons of "Blown Away" about gl...

  You remember this. It's my Fifty-Eight Carats quilt. (Fifty-Eight or 58, I can't remember.) Now that the Asterisk flower flimsy is...

I always like to lay out my quilts on the backing I have chosen so I can be sure it is big enough before I hand it off to my long arm quilte...

Charm quilt:  A charm quilt is typically a one patch quilt where no fabric is used more than once. THEREFORE: This is a Charm Quilt. (M...

This is the Fifty-Eight Carats quilt all sewn up. It's amazing how much the fabrics and colors "blend" so much better when i...

This is what I'll be sewing together. There are 58 unique fabrics, so I am going to call this quilt Fifty-Eight Carats, because carats...

You know how you have a day filled with errands and at the end you think you didn't get anything done? So here's what I did on Satur...

(Remember that line from the very first "Star Wars"? If you saw it in a movie theater, like I did, after waiting in the longest li...

You're probably looking at this and thinking I am crazy, that I didn't do anything. BUT I DID! I moved some of the stuff from the ...

I'm going to vent in a bit, so bear with me. I really do love being an artist and making quilts and making weird stuff, and pushing the ...

While I was at work yesterday I thought about this quilt, and how the first one reminded everybody of overlapping diamonds. Well, I wondered...

It's funny, but in the world of "Art" it isn't the most perfectly executed stuff that gets all the attention. Actually it ...