The Patchery Menagerie

 As I was making the little birds I realized that all my "kids" were small. But not all children are smaller than their parents. S...

  I decided that I wanted to make the little birds look like they were related to the bigger birds so I decided to make some little birds ba...

This big bird I plan to use in my classes has been quilted, and I think it's terrific.  Here's the back. I loved this color ch...

My newest bird was inspired by the Egyptian-themed fabric on the wing. The rest of the fabrics were obvious selections. I made the bird be...

It's getting there... I bet you thought this was going to be easy. Nope. Although I want the signature panel to be at the lower ...

I'm almost done the signature panel for the Colorado Quilt. This one isn't right. The dark numbers make it too visually heavy on t...

I really want to get the Colorado Quilt quilted, so I am working on the signature panel for the back. I have made the letters of my nam...

I've got a lot of stressful things going on. Nothing major, but there are a lot of smaller things that together are making me crazy. T...

When it comes time to lay out the elements on one of my quilts, I long ago learned an important lesson.  That is, that quilts are demanding ...

I finished sewing the bird blocks together and finished the Colorado Quilt flimsy. It's about 78" x 87" or so. I'm rea...

These birds are sewn to the barn block. I've set the row of birds that go above the barn so I can check it out before I sew it tog...

I am continuing to work on sewing the Colorado Quilt flimsy together. It's slow going, and I'll show you more tomorrow, but I have s...

I wanted to line up all the chicken birds in a row at the very bottom of the Colorado quilt, underneath the big barn block. I made all the...