The Patchery Menagerie

I've decided to name the quilt "Waltzing Matilda." Several things came together to get me to this name. I was reading ...

Here it is. I really like it. The individual blocks are 6" so the flimsy is 60" x 72". I'm pretty sure this quilt kno...

I sewed the blocks together for this quilt using the webbing technique. I took a class to learn how to do it, so I respect that and will n...

This isn't quite done, but it looks good. It needs a bit of fine tuning. I decided to add a ring of "busy" greens outside of...

YES YES YES YES! I love this. I might just name this quilt Ring Around the Rosy, which is kind of apropos. Did you know that Ring Arou...

I am going round and round with this quilt. I like it a lot, and it's prettier in real life. You can click the pictures and then click...

I made a few blocks and threw them up on the design wall.  I need to make more. I have lots cut, I just have to sew. When I was in col...

  Five years ago I made this quilt using Sujata Shah's Cultural Fusion Quilts as a guide. What was funny at the time was that i...

Happiness is a well loved quilt. Or two. As you can see, the Petals quilt has arrived at its new home. (That's the Sunshine quilt...

I've been hanging on to the Petals and Over the Top quilts so I could take beauty shots of them. First thing was to bring them out to th...

Since it's too dark for a beauty shot photo shoot outside, I posed it on the couch. Yup, I like this a lot.

I've been working my way around the Petals quilt, hand sewing the binding while I "watch" TV. I've got about 12" le...

Regular readers know I hand sew my binding on the front of my quilts. My mother taught me how to blindstitch when I was in the fifth grad...

I made the binding for the Petals quilt, and sewed it to the back of the quilt. The binding is one of the grey prints that's in the qu...

OH YEAH! My pal Julie drove 30 miles to Chris's house so she could see the Petals quilt in person and collaborate with Chris about a...

I had Friday afternoon off, so I went right into the studio and started putting the Petal blocks together. I could have sewn the blocks ...

They say the devil is in the details. I'm not sure about that, but I know that sometimes it's the little things that make a big diff...