Measures 9.5″ x 7″.
I grew up in a family who sewed, so it was only natural that I would want to create something, too. I made this when I was approximately 9-10 years old. Note the one inch long backstitching. There’s no way that the Barbie is going to break that stitching!

Measures 83″ x 98″
In the days when Mountain Mist used to put a quilt pattern in the batting package, my grandmother used to collect and save the patterns. The Chanticleer was one of those patterns. My mother worked on the applique and embroidery when she was caring for her six young children. She finished the hens, and most of the chicks and roosters. At some point, everything was put away and stored at my grandmother’s house. In the late 1980s, I acquired the parts and finished the missing pieces (while I was working and going to school). I hand quilted this. This was an early quilt made before I knew how to turn the corner on a bias binding. Note the piping around the edge! I wish that I knew what kind of batting that I used. This is a very cuddly quilt.

Measures 97″ x 109″
These blocks were cut when my family lived in Bend during the 70s-80s. When all the kids moved and then my parents moved, the bag of squares went with them. When I was in my early 20s I acquired the blocks and industriously began to sew them together. However, the blocks were not square, so the seams were not matching up and I wasn’t pleased with the way it looked, so the pieces and all the blocks were stored for several decades. During covid, I un-sewed the pieces that were sewn and resized every single block to be square. (It was covid–what else did I have to do?) I saw a picture that inspired the Mondrian-ish layout. I figured it all out on graph paper and began sewing. A local lady did the machine quilting. I gave the quilt to my Mom and it rotates through as her bed spread. Note the “patchwork-looking” block that was the same fabric that I used in my Barbie “quilt.”