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    • Chakra Quilts
    • EPP-Quilts
    • Sewing Projects
    • Sewing Tutorials
      • Hexie English Paper Piecing (EPP) Tutorials
      • NEPP Hand Sewing Tutorial
      • Illustrated Hexie EPP Stitching
  • About Gail
    • Graphic Design
    • What is ChickenScratch?
      • Phantom Chicken
  • Store
    • T-shirts and Apparel
    • Pre-Sales
    • Hand Printed Fabric Panels
    • Store FAQ’s
    • Privacy Notice

Gail Lizette Quilts

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About

My name is Gail Weiss and I live in gorgeous Portland, Oregon. I am a quilt maker and pattern designer. I also am a graphic designer, and along with my husband Gregg, have a small T-shirt printing company called Phantom Chicken. I see quilting as an art form. I love creating quilts that reflect show-poster…

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Tutorials

Quilting tutorials for English Paper Piecing or EPP, using paper templates. Information on NEPP (Not English Paper Pieced), or stitching without paper templates. Along with other random sewing tutorials for machine piecing, quilting and binding.

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Store

Welcome to our Store: ChickenScratch. Mixing the love of quilting and screen printing.

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Quilting Techniques

Chain Piecing

I’ve been doing a lot of chain piecing for my current quilt project. I’m sewing about four thousand 1 inch fabric squares together for the background element of my quilt design. There are a few different ways I could have accomplished this, and of course – I chose the most time consuming way to sew…

purple fabric squares
Day To Day

Making Progress

I’m finally making progress on my Third Eye Chakra Quilt project. I have had a rough couple of weeks due to some vertigo and its accompanying depression. Nothing like feeling like the world is trying to spin you off of it while you try to do anything. What I have done so far is the…

purplegraphic by gaillizette
Chakra Quilts

Spoons

Have you heard of the spoon theory? If you know someone with a chronic illness, you probably have. It’s basically the idea that some people start each day with a certain amount of spoons. Each spoon signifies the amount of energy it takes to complete one task. Since there are only a limited amount of…

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Chakra Quilts

Pretty Scraps

I’ve been strip cutting fabric the last few days for my Third Eye Chakra Quilt. So many pretty scraps! I have decided on how I’m going to place the wedges, and the kind of background I want to make. It’s going to be a grid of one inch squares. I’m cutting into every purple fabric…

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Sewing Projects

A Quilt For Our Friend

I haven’t been able to collaborate with many people on quilt projects in the past. I have commitment issues. Before Covid hit, I was part of a small sewing group started by my friend Sara Flynn. It was great to get together and sew – even if we all were working on different projects! In…

Sunflower
Day To Day

A Poem

I recently found a poem I wrote about 25 years ago, and thought it was extremely timely right now. Thought I’d share as part of the 31 day blog writing challenge. We are all part of a whole…Elements of a large, yet minute organismConnecting through the energy of words, music, sex, and artEven though separated…

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