The Patchery Menagerie

  Sometimes you (well, I) make a quilt and I put blocks up on the wall and I can already tell that no matter how I arrange the blocks the qu...

 I finished sewing the blocks for the purple and orange quilt, now known as DANCING JEWELS. I am very excited about this and like it very mu...

  Life is full of coincidences. These are my water bottles. The purple one is the one I use when I go to the gym, and the orange one is the ...

In order to get the seams to match in the hourglass bocks for the Purple and Orange quilt, I had to do some pinning. So while I watched tv, ...

  The Yellow Macnas quilt is now a flimsy. I have turned my attention to the new purple and orange quilt for my nephew. These are the fabric...

I was cleaning up in my studio and came across a stack of squares I cut but did not use in the orange Carnelian quilt. So I cut them into Ma...

  The Carnelian quilt is all finished. I had never made an orange quilt, so I made this, and I am really happy with it.

  This is IT, and what I will sew together. And as you can see, I start where I can reach without getting out the stepladder. Here I am pinn...

  Here the design wall is full of the blocks for the orange quilt, called Carnelian. I haven't rearranged these at all, and I haven'...

I'm making slightly wonky hourglass blocks the way Sujata Shah makes them with gentle curves as seen in her book Cultural Fusion Quilts....

  Woo hoo! The orange fabric has arrived, and been through the washer and dryer, and has been pressed. I have cut much of the orange fabrics...

  I'm wrestling with the idea of Christmas colored scrap slab triangle quilt. Mostly I'm stuck with how to make it colorful and yet ...

This is another "missing U" block from Sunday Morning Quilts.  In the last block, I built around the white piece. When I made t...