The Patchery Menagerie

  I finally got beauty shots of a few quilts and here they are. This is Needle in a Haystack, so named because I hid a purple triangle in th...

  The Carnelian quilt is all finished. I had never made an orange quilt, so I made this, and I am really happy with it.

  I added an orange binding to the Carnelian quilt. Now I am hand sewing it down.  Yeah I know, boring boring, boring.

  My Mom's boyfriend is a retired Electrical Engineer. He is interested in the quilts that I make and was very curious about the long ar...

It turns out I had a great piece of orangy-ish backing in my stash. I don't know when I got it, or what I got it for. Problem is, it isn...

  This is IT, and what I will sew together. And as you can see, I start where I can reach without getting out the stepladder. Here I am pinn...

  Here the design wall is full of the blocks for the orange quilt, called Carnelian. I haven't rearranged these at all, and I haven'...

I'm making slightly wonky hourglass blocks the way Sujata Shah makes them with gentle curves as seen in her book Cultural Fusion Quilts....

  Woo hoo! The orange fabric has arrived, and been through the washer and dryer, and has been pressed. I have cut much of the orange fabrics...