The Patchery Menagerie

  This is the Philip Jacobs print I have chosen for the back of the Nightingale Quilt. And this is the binding I have prepared for the quilt...

  I am quilting this small table runner to show as a sample in the new tutorial.  I have received comments from some of the people I have de...

  WAY BACK in 1988 or 1989, I made my son a pair of shorts and I incorporated a band of seminole patchwork, as you can see in the photo I to...

  I'm working on the Seminole bands for the new tutorial. I'll sew these into a small wall hanging. I'm pretty sure I've got...

I'm working on a new tutorial. It's based on the ideas from Seminole patchwork, which I have always loved. While these elements cert...

The new Slashed Squares tutorial is 99.999% finished. I have to write up a description for Etsy and then I will publish it. I'm ver...

My newest tutorial, Lynne's Slashed Squares is almost ready. It's going through the final edits, and then it will be available f...

Sixteen fabrics, 8 dark and 8 light, with 8 in each block, I wasn't sure the blocks would be varied enough to satisfy me, but I can l...

Here are my light blocks matched up with the dark centers. I tried to pair a busy light print with a calmer dark print, and a calm light p...

As I am working on the new Slashed Squares tutorial, I realized I needed better photographs.  The only real way to do that was to make anoth...

I may have mentioned that I am writing a more detailed and comprehensive Slashed Squares tutorial. Some of my (older) photos don't re...

  I am writing a tutorial for the Slashed Squares quilts, like Terrazzo, above. While basic instructions for making this quilt are freel...

I've been staring at this on the floor of my sewing studio for three weeks: It's the backing fabrics I chose for the Fruit Loops...

In the next few days I will write pages about the gnarly little topics that caused so much angst earlier this week. I need to think about w...

Oh dear Readers, how do I love thee? I love you LOTS, let me tell you! You never let me down. I wanted your answers and you were wonderful...

 OK, everybody, LISTEN UP!   One of my esteemed proofreaders has asked me some very pointed questions about what quilters really know, a...

Wow! I've finished the first draft of the new tutorial about the scrap slab quilts. It looks good to me but now it's out to my ta...

When I made the scrap slabs for my scrap triangle quilts, I didn't make enormous slabs and then cut them down. It didn't take me ...

As I promised, I am working on the tutorial for the Scrap Slab Triangle Quilts. Since I decided to write this tutorial, I've been t...

My new tutorial, "Making Your Fabric Work For You" is almost ready. It should be ready later tonight or tomorrow. In this tutori...