The Patchery Menagerie

  Once I had trimmed all the Snaps blocks to size, I took them off the design wall and clipped them together. After I worked out in the gard...

  I made a few minor adjustments. I've also been trimming these and squaring them up. I will likely sew this together this weekend. HAPP...

  I'm pretty sure. I'm almost sure. I'm 98.999% sure this is IT. Of course I may yet change my mind, but if I do change somethin...

  Even as I laid out the yellow blocks surrounding the center last week, I knew that arrangement would be boring and that I'd change it....

  I got a little restless choosing bland blenders, so I cut some livelier greens to see what they would look like on the design wall. I put ...

I had the idea to make another Snaps quilt for my dad's friend, the lady priest. Here are some pictures of previous iterations of the Sn...

I got up on Saturday morning, and went into the studio where I worked for three hours. Gail is right, the big light green block went. It was...

I've decided I liked Ola Pola so much that I would make a baby quilt using the same pattern. I'll be using lights with brighter,...

This is my friend and colleague, Daniela. She was born in Poland and became a lawyer and a judge before coming to America twenty or so years...

I worked all Saturday preparing the binding for Ola Pola, and sewed all evening and Sunday sewing the binding down. I finished just abou...

Here you can see the quilting on Ola Pola. It's lovely. Here are the two cream fabrics I am using for the binding. Regular rea...

My quilt, Ola Polla, is back from being quilted, and I want to get it done quickly. The binding is going to be cream, and in the nature of...

 The Snaps quilt has a new name. Ola Pola. It's not really a long story. You can Google it. It's the name of a candy from Europe....