Wayne Kollinger's Sketch Book

Waterhen I've decided to name this 9" x 15" rectangular block after Waterhen Manitoba.

Pinawa I've been designing rectangular blocks and naming them after places in Manitoba.

Morden I'm playing with rectangular blocks to see what I can come up with.

Dugald Why do blocks have to be square? Why can't they be rectangular? I decided to design a rectangular b...

I still need to do something about a stash that threatens to take over the house; so I'm still designing ...

Crib Quilt Most of the scrappy quilts I designed over the last week had light backgrounds. One or two had dark backgr...

Queen Size Quilt Another scrappy quilt. This time the foreground uses light browns and the background uses dark br...

Twin Quilt I'm exploring designs for scrappy quilts. The first one four days ago had totally random color with ...

Lap Quilt I've decided to design some scrappy quilts to use up odds and ends of fabrics. This one is shown using a mix of gree...

Using Half-Square Triangles   My wife Linda and I have a large fabric stash and a small house. The two are incompatible. A lot o...

Theresa I've been designing swirl blocks and giving them women's names. I decided to call this one T...

Linda Bernice Linda and Bernice are blocks that I recently designed. I thought that today I would pair the two and see what...

Sharon I designed this swirl block and named it Sharon. Here are some of the ways to use it that I thought of.

Rocky Mountain House To make a Ninepatch Pinwheel block I start with a design on a ninepatch grid. And then determine the piec...

Kingston Kingston is another in my series of blocks named after places in Ontario. These are all paper piec...

Modern Log Cabins You may have noticed that I like to change old blocks to make new ones. Today I'm going ...

Pillows By Roos Roos Kuypers sent me this picture of two pillows that she designed and then pieced and quilted by h...

Jacob's Ladder Jacob's Ladder is a traditional block I like. I've tried making it wonky. I've tried scrambling its ...

How To Piece Bernice Yesterday I showed you quilt designs using my Bernice block. Today I'll show you how I would piece this bloc...

Bernice I designed this swirl block and named it after my wife's mother Bernice.