The Patchery Menagerie

As you all know I'm planning my class at QT on Saturday. Yesterday I received one of QT's emails announcing upcoming events and cl...

An architect always thinks she gets it right. She designs and builds a house, and then turns it over to the homeowner. Sometimes, though,...

 To me, two signature elements of a free pieced house are the triangular roof and an off-kilter chimney.  Obviously not all real hous...

I think I overdid it. These two overlapping trees on the far right are too close in value, and the one on the left leans too far over to t...

I'm getting the hang of making these trees overlap. It's a little bit tricky.  You have to think of the tree as a big triangle (in...

Not those rules. The rules I mentioned in yesterday's post . They were the rules of real houses. Obviously fabric houses are different...

This is a good example of a traditional New England farmhouse with attached outbuildings and barn. This is the main house. This tradit...

My back was hurting a lot last night, so after dinner I lay on the couch and drew up this plan for the winter panel of the Four Seasons qu...

Here are the fabrics I pulled for my Spring Wonky House and Tree panel. In Spring (at least here in New England) the leaves aren't fully...

One of my quilting friends told me once, "You always find the BEST fabrics." I disagreed. I don't think my fabrics are bette...

I don't want the houses in my Four Seasons quilt to be identical. I want them to appear to be the same house at first glance, but I do...

Here are some of the fabrics I have selected for the Four Seasons houses.  I am really getting excited about this project. When I sel...

 I've been thinking a lot about my wonky house and trees. I've decided to go with the four seasons idea, and have pulled all my fabr...

It's THAT time again.  Time to clean the sewing studio because it's just to messy to work in. I've set out my fabrics for ...

I think it would be fun to have a Wonky-Along, but it's gonna have to wait until things settle down a bit. I do like the idea of making ...

After three VERY stressful weeks, I needed to get into the sewing studio and do some sewing, so I decided to make a wonky house. As I wa...

Here's my new bag! This is a big bag, 18" wide by 23" tall and 2" deep. (46 cm x 58 x 5) The straps are long enough to ...

This is Devon's quilt, Devon Town. Ten of the house blocks were inspired by drawings by his siblings, the other eight are mine. This pi...

This is Devon, and as you can see, he approves his quilt. He's a real cutie! His brother and sister immediately recognized the houses th...

Crawling around on the floor tying a quilt is rough on my knees, but that's nothing to the back pain I've had after finishing the bi...