The Patchery Menagerie

Here is the top row of the re-made Spring Fling quilt. The blocks are sewn together into the top row. Gail, I can't just cut the larger ...

So for those of you who haven't been following along, I made a quilt top that ended up just too damn big. I decided to re-make it so it ...

Here are all the blocks that fit on the design wall. Here are the ones that belong in the far right column. Here are the blocks laid out on ...

  I'm sewing the blocks together. I do them in groups.  Numbering the columns is what you do when you web a quilt together. These are th...

Before I can sew anything together I have to finalize the placement of the component blocks. I've decided to web the pieces of each bloc...

  I know I thought a quilt 80 x 96 (or whatever) inches was too big but I then I thought about having leftover blocks and that really annoye...

Here are all the colors on the design wall. As you can see the design wall is still too small to show all the parts of the blocks on the far...

  I found some yellows.  And here is a result of the stash search for more dark/light pairs of Green, Blue, Violet, Pink and Orange. (I'...

Making the blocks for this quilt is really time consuming and it isn't my favorite thing to do. After I make the individual pieces for t...

IF I inserted yellow blocks between the green and the orange, I'd have to shift things around, so here I did that, leaving space for the...

This is the last photo from my last post..  I swapped two of the pinks and two of the purples. The orange pair in the top row is too blah an...

  I'm moving right along making the components for each color, but it's annoying I can't see them all on the design wall.  Well,...

Each pair of colors I have chosen will make 16 4-1/2" pieces, that when assembled, make a four by four block that will finish at 16...

Cherie was right when she predicted that my next project would be improvisational. But after a couple of quilts based on straight lines, you...