The Patchery Menagerie

  Now that the PRIZM quilt and its backing are all ready for the longarm quilter, the design wall is empty. EEK! My studio has been a real m...

  When the CEO said he knew where the Goose Rocks Beach quilt was going to go, he wasn't kidding. Turns out the family room in his home ...

  I gave Goose Rocks Beach to the CEO. He's been wrestling with dramatic changes over the last few months, and I know he's been stre...

  I've finished the Goose Rocks Beach quilt. The weather is supposed to be lousy the next few days, so there won't be any outside be...

  I've attached the binding to the Goose Rocks Beach quilt and now I'm joining the ends. Here I have pinned the binding to the front...

This is my colleague, MJ, in a photo taken a few years ago. We crossed paths in the office and I told her I loved the colors she was wearing...

  The Goose Rocks Beach quilt has been quilted. The quilting design is called "Undertow," which is amazingly appropriate! I made t...

The brown, blue and cream/white Slashed Squares flimsy is complete, and it is now called Goose Rocks Beach.  Thanks to the readers  who...

I keep forgetting how quickly this quilt goes together. I've got all the blocks sewn together and the bottom two rows are sewn, but th...

One of the things I like best about the Slashed Squares quilt is the way the center block can really be made to stand out. Here are s...

As I have said before, just getting all your blocks up on the design wall is only a start. I got up Sunday morning and went into the stu...

After I made 18 blocks, I decided I had enough. After braving the crowds at the grocery store, pharmacy and gas station (a snowstorm w...

I now have sixteen basic blocks. I want more so I'll have more variety, so I'm not done quite yet. I've had a fat quarter...

Here is the batch of blocks I started yesterday for the new Slashed Squares quilt. ( You can get the tutorial here. ) And here are s...

After dinner last night I went into the studio and started cutting cream blocks and some long strips for my new Slashed Squares Quilt . Th...

After watching Ken Jennings win Super Jeopardy, last night, I went into the studio and dragged out the blues and browns and white-ish fab...

A couple of months ago I had an idea that didn't go anywhere. Not because it wasn't a good idea, but I got a better one, and f...