The Patchery Menagerie
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My name is Lynne Tyler and I live in New England in the USA. I've been sewing since 5th grade and making quilts since college. I love working with abstract shapes and color. I love strip piecing. I'm trained as an artist, and I love the graphic quality of quilts. I'd rather take the time to make something beautiful than buy something ugly.
The Patchery Menagerie
20h ago
I ordered some fabrics to make a dress for my granddaughter. The dress will have a seminole patchwork band across the bodice and a strip along the hem. The fabrics are here, but the dress pattern has not arrived quite yet, but it is due soon. I am quite excited.
Have you noticed the eyes in one of the green fabrics? They are supposed to be dinosaur eyes surrounded by dinosaur scales. Because OF COURSE, my dinosaur-loving granddaughter has her Memere wrapped around her little finger ..read more
The Patchery Menagerie
20h ago
WAY BACK in 1988 or 1989, I made my son a pair of shorts and I incorporated a band of seminole patchwork, as you can see in the photo I took back then. I think my son was 8, and I'm kinda surprised he actually WORE the shorts, and not just to humor me. I have pictures of him at school wearing them.
Anyway, I have long thought Seminole patchwork was sixteen kinds of awesome, and I still do. I think the shorts were pretty stylish then, and I think any cool kid would be happy with them now. It was super easy to insert a bit of seminole patchwork into a pair of shorts.
It's always nice to ..read more
The Patchery Menagerie
5d ago
I am quilting this small table runner to show as a sample in the new tutorial.
I have received comments from some of the people I have designated as my "editors." It is so interesting. Each person notices something different. All the comments I have received and been very good. Some are corrections about my grammar, some are suggestions about better photographs and sometimes I get suggestions to reorder my logic. In each case the suggestions or comments strengthened my overall concept. It's a lot of work, and a lot of thinking. It's challenging, but I know it's worth it.
Way, W ..read more
The Patchery Menagerie
1w ago
While I haven't got a specific retirement date in mind yet, it's coming. I've spent the last few months training Ben, a lovely young man, who will be taking over for me. I've pretty much taught him everything. Now I get to watch while he does the work.
We all work in our own way, and there's nothing wrong with that. Except.
In my very first job when I was sixteen, I worked in an office, and my job that summer was to be the backup for when all the gals in the office went on vacation. So I got to do a lot of different things. One day I had to stuff envelopes. But there were like 10 differe ..read more
The Patchery Menagerie
1w ago
I'm working on the Seminole bands for the new tutorial. I'll sew these into a small wall hanging. I'm pretty sure I've got all my sewing done ..read more
The Patchery Menagerie
2w ago
We're supposed to have snow her in New Hampshire today and tomorrow, but it's sunny in California.
This is my DGD with the quilt I made for her as a baby.
I gift my California family with a membership to the South Botanic Garden each year. These pictures were taken there.
How cool is this?
Then again, this is pretty cool too. Pink and Green, one of those perfect combinations. Quilt and Granddaughter, nice pair also.
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The Patchery Menagerie
2w ago
Woo hoo! March is over. I have put green pillows and the Greensleeves quilt over the back of the couch.
I put a green quilt on the table, and the fruit in a green bowl on the table.
I also replaced the cover on the little pillow on the red chair.
I have been keeping up with the Covid vaccines, and got the latest one on Saturday. It really knocked me out. I spent most of Sunday sacked out on the couch.
Which was really annoying, because I was looking forward to be a bit more active. In the last couple of months one of my medications changed and I had been wrestling with the side ..read more
The Patchery Menagerie
2w ago
I added extra fabric to the sides of the Yakkety Yak quilt to square it up. I have a tiny bit of tinkering to this and it will be ready to send it to be quilted.
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The Patchery Menagerie
3w ago
My least favorite part of making a quilt is getting the backing ready. I don't often use the large 108" wide fabric sold for quilt backings. I bought some for the Awash in a Sea of Blue quilt, but then also bought a panel to fit into the backing.
If you've ever worked with one of these panels you know they aren't square (all corners are 90 degrees) and the sides aren't straight. Look at the right edge of the panel above, you can see how much it bows out.
The first thing I had to do was figure out where the panel would fit in the backing piece, and what size pieces of the background di ..read more
The Patchery Menagerie
1M ago
The backing and binding fabrics for the blue Scrap Slab Triangle quilt, Awash in a Sea of Blue, have arrived.
This will be the majority of the backing. I had placed this in my shopping cart, and then went hunting for the binding.
This swirly blue will be the binding fabric. I was ironing it (because you know EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF FABRIC that comes into my house gets a trip through the washer and dryer before I bring it into the studio) and I figured, might as well cut the strips for the binding at the same time.
I didn't really NEED anything else, but I decided to browse throug ..read more