The Patchery Menagerie

The Field of Dreams quilt has arrived in the City of Angels and as you can see, it was very well received. My DIL exclaimed, "It's ...

  I tied all the knots on the Field of Dreams quilt, then trimmed down the excess backing, folded it over and pinned it down. Then I machine...

  I am tying the Field of Dreams quilt with crochet cotton. I use a needle with a big eye and a sharp point. I am tying the quilt at the cor...

  I finished sewing together the Field of Dreams flimsy. The thing is enormous. I didn't know how I was going to lay out the backing and...

  My son and DIL have decided the name of the Green quilt should be "Field of Dreams."  I finished sewing all the strip pairs. I...

  Work on my son's "No Batting Quilt" begins. I will call it NBQ until I find another more suitable name. I started cutting st...

I was going to name the White Nightingale quilt "Mourning Dove" but I was talking to my friend  Susan and she said the quilt was w...

  The White Nightingale quilt is now a flimsy. Here it is on my front porch.  It's really pretty and cheerful. There is a tutorial for t...

  After I made all the components I sewed the first batch of blocks together and threw them up on the design wall. It looks about like I tho...

  This is the original black quilt, that started me writing the tutorial for what I came to call the Nightingale quilts. You can go read the...

  The second Nightingale quilt is back from the longarm quilter and has had the binding added and is now complete. This one has a home and i...

  Me, Erik & JF. Tony, Erik & JF. Tony is my insurance agent. At a meeting last fall when we were discussing my retirement, he menti...

  To add the birds panel into the backing of the 3rd Nightingale quilt required a fair amount of math. The colored feather fabric was a 108...

  This is Susan B's Nightingale quilt. Susan is the quilter who strongly encouraged me to write a tutorial for this quilt, and then admi...