The Patchery Menagerie

 The South Beach Botanic Garden is located not far from my son's family. They love it, so I gift them with a family membership each year...

  Sometimes you're so busy you forget to really look at the things right in front of you. This is "Life is Tweet," my attempt ...

 I liked the black butterflies in the Ghastly fabric, and wanted to use them in the quilt somehow . I had made a black butterfly for...

In 2008, I devised a way to make a free pieced butterfly that was easy to make and had a lot of possibility for variations. I published...

The Colorado Quilt has arrived in the high desert of Colorado and now it lives on P & J's bed. My extremely loquacious brothe...

When I was making birds last winter, I was a little blue around Christmastime. As it turns out, that was when my DS and DIL discovered the...

I'll be at Quilted Threads today, teaching a class on the birds, asterisk flowers, hearts and my free-pieced butterflies.  We...

It's officially a flimsy! And it has a name, "Life is 'Tweet!" It is 40-1/2" x 47-1/2" (102.8 cm x 120.6 cm)...

It's almost a flimsy. Everything is sewn together. I need to add a couple of inches of WOW all around, and then square it off and it w...

OK, I am back to making the sample for the Birds & Butterflies class. This is what I have so far. Now I have to add the asterisks.  ...

The other day, while I was doing something that wasn't sewing, I had an idea. So I had to give it a try. I think this looks OK, ...

Hmm... This one? Or this one? I'm pretty sure I know which one I'll do.  It's a sample for the class on Birds, Butterfli...

Here's a butterfly before I've trimmed the bottom wings. Right now this butterfly looks very upright and a little stiff.  I...

So knowing my penchant for avoiding tradition at all costs, who among you would have predicted that I would end up liking this arrangement...

Mistakes can be learning experiences if we let them.  This "moth" is the result of my attempt at trying to make a butterfly wit...

Some of you may have noticed I removed the free pieced butterfly tutorial from my blog.  I'm reworking it, and it will be available as...

Sometimes you get a great idea, and when you execute it, it doesn't look the way you envisioned it.  Such it is with this green butt...

Of these five, three are definite YES, one is a No, and one is a Maybe. But which are which? Care to guess?

For guess who, on guess what?