The Patchery Menagerie

 I decided the next word should be GIGGLES. It's fun and silly. . I knew where I wanted to go with the word, but it wasn't until I t...

I "met" Julie sometime between 2007 and 2008 while we both participated in Tonya Ricucci's online class of free pieced letters...

My best pal Julie (that's her on the right) and I have known each other since August of 2008, and we have met each other in person twi...

For the last few days this has been the view into the dining room. Notice the empty walls.  I had taken the quilts down to bring to the Co...

When I talked about my stash the other day, I mentioned I use large prints on the back of my quilts. It's a funny thing, but when I tak...

My quilts arrived back home yesterday. After an extended stay in Memphis with Julie , the sampler quilt, Letters From Home, is back on t...

About a year ago I ran out of wall space. I gave my friend Julie a call and asked if she'd like to hang my sampler quilt in her house ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about retiring my sampler quilt, "Letters From Home." What I meant was I wanted to give it a rest from han...

At one of the classes I taught a few weeks ago, I took a good look at my quilt, Letters From Home, and realized it was dirty. There were s...

Yesterday I drove to my favorite quilt shop, Quilted Threads, in Henniker NH. I love this shop; it has a great selection, it's well-org...

This is Tonya Ricucci , author of Word Play Quilts , and creator of the wonderful free-pieced alphabet. She's holding my quilt, Letters ...

You've all seen my Alphabet Sampler Quilt. It's going to be published in an upcoming book and I think it needs a more creative title...