The Patchery Menagerie

In 2021 I made a quilt inspired by water on the road that reflected the sky in it. I called the quilt Deep Space .  It was based on the Slid...

  I have told you regularly and often that I wash EVERY piece of fabric before I let it into the studio. I wash it in warm water. Then I run...

  Cats live in our world, but most of us know that's an illusion. (Cat owners know we live under their control/training in theirs.) Afte...

  Yeah, I know this isn't a quilt. I live in New England, where we have beautiful fall foliage. What that means is that after the leaves...

  I've been sewing the binding of the Deep Space quilt. The last few days I've been working my way around the quilt, and I only have...

 In other news... ~ !~ I visited Janet-Lee the other day and picked up two quilts, the Holiday Boxes, which is quilted in a ribbons pattern ...

  This is from Hana, who  sent me three birds. This black bird (check out the Mickey Mouse breast fabric!! LOL) is an average sized bird on ...

  I added a small deep space border to the Ice Blue quilt. Here is the finished flimsy on top of the fabric I have selected for the backing....

  My extra fabric arrived on Friday and I was able to get it through the washer and dryer before my "work day" ended so I could ge...

    I love questions. Somebody asked me once, "Where do you start?" Where do you start WHAT? I asked back. "Where do start wh...

  in 2009 I made this quilt, Laughing Out Loud. It is a takeoff of the "Reading in Bed" quilt in Freddy Moran & Gwen Marston...

I got up on Saturday morning, and went into the studio where I worked for three hours. Gail is right, the big light green block went. It was...

 I made another set of blocks and put them up on the design wall. Even though I added some darks to the edges of the blocks, this still look...