The Patchery Menagerie

The first question to ask when binding a quilt (I believe) is to decide whether a quilt needs room to breathe or whether it needs to be con...

At the end of 2011 I was making a sample quilt for a houses class I was planning. I was making my houses quilt into a quilt of the Four Se...

A couple of weeks ago I showed you this picture of the barn that inspired my pink barn. When I brought the pink barn top to Janet-Lee ...

I hate leaving for a vacation trip with a project half started, so I deliberately didn't do much sewing before I left for Californ...

I am always on the lookout for neat looking barns as I drive around. Here are a few that I have photographed over the last few weeks.  T...

I'll be teaching a free-pieced barns class on Saturday, at Quilted Threads , based on Julie Sefton's book Build-a-Barn. You can se...

Sometimes you take a picture and you know right away that it's a terrific one. This is one such photo. This is Kendall and her grandmo...

Here's one of the barns from the class at Quilted Threads on Saturday. The class was very small, only four students, but it was gr...

The Colorado Quilt is finished. I'll get a few more beauty shots, have it appraised, show it off to my students at QT this coming...

Last night I sewed the binding to the Colorado Quilt. You know I sew it to the back of the quilt, and then fold it over to the front, ...

That's me (on the right) with Janet Lee Santeusanio of Woodland Manor Quilting, who quilted the Colorado Quilt. It is all hand guided f...

These were the lovely ladies in the barn building class at Quilted Threads on Saturday. They worked hard and had a great time. (That'...