Wayne Kollinger's Sketch Book

Piecing Yesterday I showed you this lettering and complained that it was inconsistant and therefore badly designed in terms of...

Piecing Sawtooth Star This quilt top design is from my 28 October 2010 post. It is possible to piece this using only square and half-s...

Piecing Sawtooth Star This quilt top design is from my 28 October 2010 post. It is possible to piece this using only squares and half-...

Piecing Double Crested Cormorant I wanted to piece a picture of a Cormorant standing on a rock and sunning its wings. I started to dr...

Piecing Tessellation This is a quilt top that I designed in my 10 June 2010 post. It is a tessellation; it was designed using a single ...

Piecing Hooded Merganser This was my first attempt at creating a Hooded Merganser block. I was working from several pictures a...

Piecing Common Merganser This my attempt to piece a Common Merganser. Not bad for a first attempt but the beak is too fat.

Piecing Red -Winged Blackbird I created this design for a Red-winged Blackbird assuming that that there would be divisions at the neck ...

Piecing Yellow-Headed Blackbird This is my first attempt at designing a pieced block featuring a Yellow-headed Blackbird. I thought i...

Piecing Black-Capped Chickadee I created this simplified drawing of a Black-capped Chickadee. Now I need to decide how to piece it.

From My Pieced Alphabet: Point McKay Point McKay is an attempt to create an alphabet that has no horizontal strokes. All...

Piecing Black-Billed Magpie I've drawn this simplified picture of a Black-billed Magpie. I need to decide how I'm going to piec...

Playing with Piecing Tesselated Block I developed this tessellated block on 6 May 2010. I need to decide how it should be pieced.

Playing with Piecing Toucan I thought it might be fun to try piecing a Toucan. It has a very distinctive beak that is almost impossibly ...

Piecing Eastern Kingbird I want to design an Eastern Kingbird block for two reasons.  Its simple black and white coloring should be easy...

Playing with Piecing Octopus I must admit I don't find octopi to be the cutest animals.  I thought it would be a challenge to make a...

Playing with Piecing Tortoise I drew this picture of a tortoise. To me he looks slow and none too bright.  He also looks like he should...

Playing with Piecing Hummingbird I got out my gridded paper and drew this picture of a hummingbird. It will make a fine quilt block once...

Playing with Piecing Elephant I wanted to make an elephant block, so I drew what I thought was a reasonably good elephant. Perhaps it...

Playing with Piecing Nuthatch I want a quilt block featuring a Nuthatch; so I drew this sketch of a Nuthatch on a tree branch. The Nut...