Childhood Memories Redwork - This quilt is a trip down memory lane as the machine embroidery (designs by Cactus Punch) depicts scenes of some typical activities of children of yesteryear. The nine patches and the border pieces are of 1930's reproduction fabrics. My mother told me how her mother used to trade feed sack fabrics with other women to have enough of the same design to make a dress for her. I also used to watch and help my aunts put together feedsack quilts at my grandmother's house. The one I remember the most was a beautiful 'Dresden Plate' pattern with hand blanket stitching embellishing. Happy memories!

Rooster and His Chicks - Greater Moncton quilt Guild Round Robin, I made the center block and the piece was passed to 3 other guild members over a period of 4 months. each one adding a border.

Mother Earth - Mother Earth is a row quilt that provides instructions for the blocks that make up each row or partial row. A variety of techniques are used in the quilt and it provides a wonderful canvas for your own embellishments and modifications. It may be quilted by the row, quilting as you go. This quilt was published on the cover of Quilters Newsletter Magazine (October 1995) and the Lang Quilt Calendar (November 1996).

Spinning Stars - Spinning Stars quilt is paper pieced utilizing 60-degree triangles arranged with star strips and/or background strips to create the appearance of spinning stars. The quilt uses three colors with four fabrics in each color to make the stars plus background fabric and border fabric. I drafted the design after watching a Simply Quilts episode with Bonnie Browning, then later modified to to use only four strips on each side of the triangle to reduce the amount of sewing while achieving similar results.

Floral Stained Glass - Twenty block Stained glass patterns created with instructions that include patterns for all blocks and a "faux glass border" or a "broken glass border." Patterns were created for a class I was teaching and since then are self published and sold when I do guild lectures and workshops (or by mail from my website). The blocks may be used in various combinations to create any size quilt needed.

Wool Lap Quilt-Stay warm in College - This lap quilt was created in the early 1960's by my grandmother for me to use a college to keep warm when the heat didn't work. It is made of wool that she or my father had made into clothes for members of our family. I recognize 3 different wool pieces that I know I wore during the 1950's & 60"s. Some of the rectangles are patched so that they are the correct size for the quilt. This attests to my gradmothers frugal use of every scrap of fabric. I remember playing with her scraps as a child and learning to sew first from her at a very young age (5-10). The quilts has been secured tofether by tying with wool yarn.

That Texas Quilt - This quilt combines a variety of 6" pieced blocks with "orphaned" blocks I originally created for a local shop hop. The focus blocks are appliqued, pieced, and paper-pieced, reflecting typical Texas images.

Daisies Don't Tell - This quilt was a gift from my landlord when I students taught in the late 1960's. She made it, but I am sorry to say I can't remember her name.

Star Sampler - Star Sampler quilt has a mariner's compass block centered in a large feathered star medallion surrounded by twelve different traditional star blocks. Includes a unique sashing method that allows “quilt-as-you-go” construction with minimal hand work and a combination of border options to create different size quilts. Instructions for this quilt are written such that they are suitable for teaching over a multi-month period of time where students get instructions to develop skills over a series of lessons.

Machine Quilted Feathers - This quilt was created as a sample of techniques which will be learned in a machine quilting workshop that I teach. I have always loved to do feathers and I think they can be used to enhance almost any quilt.

Nine Patch Fed Sack Scrap Quilt - My grandmother was a very frugal woman, she had to be to raise 3 children during the depression. This scrap nine-patch quilt was made from scraps and feed sack materials from her stash (scrap box). I learned to save all those small pieces of sewing fabric from making clothing to use in a quilt later. This quilt has kept 5 generations of my family warm and is a treasurer to me. Thefabrics are mostly from the 1930"s and theback is made from feed sacks.

Grandma's Flower Garden - I estimate that this quilt was made in the 1930's by my grandmother. I asked her to teach me to handquilt when I was a teen but she refused saying it was too eye straining ( I am blind in 1 eye) and she felth regular machine and hand sewing was enough for my good eye. I regret that I didn't continue my request, but she was rather stubborn and probably wouldn'thave changed her mind. I was given this from her estate when she passed away at the age of 89 & 10 months.

I Love Purple - My paternal grandmother made this quilt for me when I was very young. It was given to me when I got married many years after she had passed away. I asked my mother why it was Purple and she said grandma ask me my favorite color and of course it was purple, so the scheme for thequilt was purple. I have looked for many years for someone who might know the pattern, but have found no certain answers. If you know the pattern please email me.

Dad's Flannel - I made this quilt for my dad in 2004. He wanted me to make him one so bad. I wanted him to use it in his semi truck bunk but he bought a nice quilt hanger and hung it in his bedroom so it wouldn't get ruined. I got it back when he passed away in 2005.

Snowman Fun - I got this from a shop on a local shop hop a few years ago. I have no idea which shop. All I know is it wasn't from my regular shop. I assume they designed it as there is no information on the instruction sheet.

Stars & Stripes Sampler - This quilt was really fun to make. Some of the blocks were very challenging and are probably not the best close up but for the first time doing them they are ok.

Basket Case Quilt - I really like Thimbleberries rich colors. They are very pleasing to me. I enjoyed making this quilt.