The Patchery Menagerie

 I taught a bird class at the Night Owl Quilting Studio this past weekend. Here are some of the students and the birds they made. . . . . If...

 I received some right facing birds from Janet and Liz, This is from Liz, who made this bird in a class I taught way back in 2018. This is f...

  I'm teaching a class on my birds at the Night Owl Quilting Studio in Amherst NH today. We're going to have a lot of fun. If you w...

  The bird quilt I made for my mother is finished. I sewed the binding while binge-watching older seasons of Bridgerton so I would be caught...

  I'm going to have to beef up my presence on Facebook if I want to combat the spammers who stole my tutorial and direct readers to my l...

  Assembling the bird quilt, because the birds aren't aligned in neat rows and columns, is really fussy. I have a plan I work out and tr...

  I made a sewing bird for my Mom. She made all my clothes until I was eight years old so I wanted to do a sewing bird for her.

  Now that I have made all the birds based on members of my family, I am making birds based on things I know my Mom likes. She likes the col...

I tell my students all the time, "Don't buy fabrics you fall in love with UNLESS you have a definite plan to cut it up and use it i...

 I am opinionated. I believe that all other things being equal, fabric selection determines the success or failure of a quilt.  There are lo...

 I've made a couple more birds for my Mom's bird quilt. Here is a green one. I have made myself a promise that these birds will come...

  I've been moving along with making birds based on my family members for my Mom's bird quilt. This is my nephew. You can see the qu...

I've made another bird for my mother's bird quilt. I had had a pile of blacks with bright colors on my worktable and told myself I h...

  I finished the Green Deco quilt and took it out for Beaty shots. This is my favorite.  It's so gorgeous this weekend, I have to enjoy ...

  I'm BACK!  Last weekend I drove out to Clifton Park NY. (I took the 3 hour 31 minute route. It wound through the mountains in Vermont ...

 I have been making family birds for the bird quilt my Mom wants.  This is my mom's boyfriend bird. He worked as an electrical engineer,...