The Patchery Menagerie

  I decided to make a Green Deco quilt to match the Spring Birds quilt of the birds with the light green backgrounds.  The quilt is from Amy...

When I visited my pal Julie in 2013 I was surprised to see a quilt covering the table in her kitchen. I thought it was a good idea to protec...

Since the "A" block of the Deco quilt is three six inch strips sewn together, I went through my stack of strips and cut many of...

The idea for the Blue (and now Pink) Deco quilts came from this book: Colorful Quilts for Fabric Lovers There are two blocks, an...

Now that the weather is warming up, it's time for the summer quilt to cover the dining room table. This is "Blue Deco." Yo...

I added the binding to the Blue Deco quilt. As you can see I use pins, and I use a lot of them. I prefer them over the binding clips. I ca...

The Blue Deco quilt is back from being quilted. I always let Chris decide how to quilt my quilts. She knows what to do. The Blue Deco wil...

Here is the backing for the Blue Deco Quilt. It's from the Free Spirit collection from Westminster Fabrics. Each iris is about six to...

W00t!  It's a flimsy, and damn , does it look good on the table!  It's 54" x 90".

The Blue Deco quilt has grown, and now I only have four more rows to sew to finish the top. I counted, and there are at least eighty fab...

I made all the blue deco blocks, and arranged them on the floor.  They looked OK, so I started sewing them together into rows. As soon as ...

When I first saw the rotary cutter in the early 1980's, I could see its potential right away and I knew I'd never make a quilt using...

I cut up a bunch of blueish strips for the Blue Deco quilt. Mostly they are light and cool blues and some lean towards light blue green (aka...

Take some of these and mix them with some of these and you get something like this or, what I'm calling Blue Deco. It'...