The Patchery Menagerie

I "met" Julie sometime between 2007 and 2008 while we both participated in Tonya Ricucci's online class of free pieced letters...

My best pal Julie (that's her on the right) and I have known each other since August of 2008, and we have met each other in person twi...

About a year ago I ran out of wall space. I gave my friend Julie a call and asked if she'd like to hang my sampler quilt in her house ...

A few weeks ago I mentioned that if it hadn't been for my cat Millie, I wouldn't be a quilt blogger. I wouldn't have met my fri...

My friend, The Selvage Fairy, drove up to my favorite Quilt Shop, Quilted Threads, to see the two Rules Quilts together. She sent me an em...

In my quilts, I like to make the viewer on a voyage of discovery. I want them to keep looking closer, to discover the elements I have placed...

Woo Hoo! The two Rules quilts, the "White Cat Rules" and "The Black Cat's Rules" are now hanging side by side at Qu...

The colors look a bit truer here. I'm happy with the way this turned out. I can't wait to see them both hanging side by side. *C...

Not really, I still have to sew the hanging sleeve, but for all intents and purposes, this quilt is done. Somebody is gonna have to tell me ...

Translation: Where are the rules? Usually I finish my quilts fairly quickly, but I needed fabric for binding. I had intended to bind the qui...

The flimsy isn't quite finished, but it's getting close. The word OBEY is too tall, and needs to be trimmed. I haven't sewn the...

Now that the big dinner party is done, and the house is back to normal, I was itching to get sewing. The black rules letters are on the des...

After much of this: I have finished this: I will attempt to take some better photos outside, but the weather report shows rain for the next ...

I generally pay absolutely no attention to who manufactured or designed the fabric I buy, but somebody asked about this fabric, so here it i...

I have made the binding for the white Rules quilt, and I have made the hanging sleeve. The next step is trimming the quilt down to size, an...

The white rules quilt is back from Chris, who did her longarm quilting magic. But first, here's the fabric I selected for the backing: ...

The white Rules quilt flimsy is finished. It's about 44" wide by 52" high. (112 cm x 132 cm). woo hoo!

Now THIS is the effect I was looking for! Finally I know exactly how to get precisely the effect I was after. Oh boy, I am really going to...

The space between the U and the N probably needs to be bigger, and the exclamation mark may need to move up a bit. I found a good quote in L...

This wide, white FUN is just to the right of the ALL THE in my white rules quilt. I love having elements in this quilt that viewers can dis...