The Patchery Menagerie

  This is the original black quilt, that started me writing the tutorial for what I came to call the Nightingale quilts. You can go read the...

There's a thing called "visual weight" and we all know what it is even if we haven't got a term for it. Sometimes we nee...

I tell my students that we all know when it's working, and we generally know when it isn't. Usually it's when we're not sure...

Yes, It's ugly. There. I said it. This is the result of the most recent tinkering. I haven't cut more fabric yet. Did you...

OK. Looking at that wall of black and white triangles just reminded me of the black and white triangle quilts I made last year . I tho...

Young British designer Sarah Dickins has designed a sewing machine to encourage "making." This machine is just a prototype, it i...

Not those rules. The rules I mentioned in yesterday's post . They were the rules of real houses. Obviously fabric houses are different...

So I am trying to duplicate the repeat design I did in college and finding it rather tricky. (I can't quite figure out how I did it t...

This is a future quilt project in the works. I'm nowhere near ready to start sewing. First, I have to settle on a way to organize the w...

What do you do when you're lying in the dentist's chair for a two hour appointment in which you are getting a crown on one of your b...

I want my scrappy quilts to look spontaneous, but they are very much planned. I do not just grab one piece and sew it to another, so I need ...