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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.

Hexie Travel Roll

Sewing Tutorials

Hexies-A-Go-Go

I’m just about ready to start stitching my new hexie hummingbird design, and I thought I’d share how I take my hexies to-go with me so I can work on piecing anywhere! I physically layout my whole design before starting to stitch. That means you need to have a layout space large enough for your project….

Orbital Spotting Front

Projects

A Screen Printed Quilt FINISH!

Finished Front YAY! I have finished the screen printed quilt! I’m considering calling it “Orbital Spotting” but I’m open to suggestions. *wink wink* Super happy with this one! I made the blocks based on “Anita’s Arrowheads” technique by Anita Grossman. You cut all your pieces for one block with just a few rotary cuts….

Hexie Placemat

Sewing Tutorials

A Hexie Tutorial – All Points Patchwork Blog Hop!

I’ve created a hexie tutorial for All Points Patchwork Blog Hop. As you may know: I’m a hexie addict. So when Diane Gilleland of CraftyPod contacted me about participating in her Mug Rug Blog Hop, I couldn’t say no! She has recently published the book: All Points Patchwork that is chuck full of all sorts…