The Patchery Menagerie

  I chose a group of middle-range blues to use as an outer border on the blue quilt. I cut the strips more or less about 20" long, but ...

  Each evening I have been assembling a row of blocks. By Friday night I had sewn them all but one. Then I finished the last row, and sewed ...

  Sewing the blocks together is a kind of a precise thing. I start at the right side of the quilt, and then place the right side triangle ov...

I arranged the blue triangles the way I wanted, then added the light side triangles. They are pretty quiet, I know. This quilt has a home al...

  Here is the Red block. I knew I didn't want it to be too dark, so all the fabrics are red on white. These are the nine blocks. I am ha...

  Here is the Teal block. And here is the Orange one. I really had to search through my stash and bins to find light orange fabrics, or fabr...

  Here's the light pink block. I'm not generally a pastel fan but these blocks are so pretty. When I envisioned making a quilt of mo...

 To Cherie who pointed out that the "new" blue block was the same as the original one... OOPS! I uploaded the wrong photo. The Yel...

  I revised the blue block. I didn't like the two big light blocks in the middle. I decided to shuffle around some artwork and the drawi...

 Here's a blue Missing U block. Here's a green one. These blocks are based on fabrics with the color or design on a white background...

  This is the big pile of fabric that I have to sort through. I emptied all the big bins on the floor. This is what I have to sort through. ...

This is my pal Kathy French, one of the SSOBB members, who visited me on Saturday. She and her husband stopped by on their way home from V...

To make "Made Fabric" you have to have scraps.   You can probably do it by cutting up yardage, but I think it's fun to use ...