The Patchery Menagerie

 I received some right facing birds from Janet and Liz, This is from Liz, who made this bird in a class I taught way back in 2018. This is f...

A few days ago I got an email from Mavis. Her bird quilt, named "Who's Watching Who?" won 3rd Prize in her category at Quilt C...

  The first student bird quilt, Crowing About It, is finished. I've been sewing the binding on it while catching up on Sanditon, Top Che...

  I never work on more than one quilt at a time. Now I've got TWO going simultaneously. AND I've got two STUCK. I am waiting for mor...

  I'm in New England, and we got hit hard with a Nor'Easter on Tuesday. I elected to work from home, which was smart as the roads we...

  This is the fabric I chose to bind the first student bird quilt, "Crowing About It."  Regular readers know I sew my binding to t...

  This is the first student bird quilt, quilted. I was finally able to connect with Janet-Lee Santeusanio and pick up this quilt. Both of us...

  You know how you look at the same thing every day for years and then all of a sudden one day you look at it and say, "NOPE. I'm s...

  In my bird quilts I like to arrange the birds as if they are talking to each other. As if they are discovering things they have in common....

  I figured out how to put the rest of the birds together. Here I am assembling the last panel. This is the result of the photo above. Now I...

  I got to this point and realized I sewed the lavender bird to the top panel (underneath the small orange bird) too soon. So I took it apar...

 Now that you have seen how I put the birds together into what I call "panels," this is how I plan to assemble the rest of the qui...

  I received a lot of left facing birds, and when I started to lay out the first bird quilt, I had too many left facing birds. All the birds...

  I've decided to break up the student birds into two quilts. This way the quilts will be able to fit to hang in smaller spaces for disp...