klein meisje quilts

(((Lost this post when I tried to make a correction!))) I made this little (about 20" by 28") quilt back in 1996. The pattern was...

My guild has a cooperative show with the weavers and knitters guilds, the Fine Art of Fiber. I displayed a beautiful quilt that was given t...

I just finished another quilt top using Bonnie's wonky houses. This one will be a fund raiser for my church--they participate in Appala...

I've been working on this red quilt for a while--finally at a place where I can concentrate on it and finish the top. Trying to figure ...

I buy plaid cotton shirts at the thrift stores--here in Chicago the big chains are Unique Thrift (half price on Mondays!) and Village Discou...

Chicago is full of Sox fever and I laughed when on the radio this morning the sports guy went on a rant about how there were no hotel rooms ...

I guess I can join the Halloween bandwagon with this quilt--not Halloween colors, but has cats. I am not a cat person. We had cats on the f...

I am a hospice nurse and have days where I come home feeling like I have carried too much, and others when I come home exhilarated by the ev...

I made this quilt from scraps-it is just a rail fence block made with 1 1/2 by 3 1/2 strips and two 1 1/2 inch squares on one side to make i...

I had many wonderful brown large scale prints and put them with some corals to make this star quilt last winter. Some blocks are low contras...

My favorite fall picture of Seth with his pumpkin in 2003. He and a neighbor decided to squirrel proof the jack-o-lantern with tooth picks-...

My father-in-law's funeral was yesterday. His ashes were buried in the church gardens. They had to be in a biodegradable container, wh...

Women from my church have a knitting group that has a shawl ministry. This spring we made shawls for women struggling with life issues and ...

Here is another buzz saw, set into a circle block. To make the block a square, you have to add a 2 inch strip to one side. You can then set...

This buzz saw started with 6 1/2 inch blocks, cut 1 1/2 inches into strips. I used mainly dark greens and creams. The borders are a bunch ...

I have a Buzz Saw class that I really enjoy. These photos are of one I made in scraps. I think I started these with 7 1/2 inch squares....

My small group gives each other fat quarters for our birthdays--I try to put them into my next quilt. This one I made 2 years ago for my da...

A small quilt made with hand dyed fabrics I purchased about 12 years ago. After many years of being pregnant or breast feeding, I finally a...

Our family attends St Pauls United Church of Christ in Chicago, where I am happy to make paraments and vestments. These red ones were for th...

A framed nine patch, the darks being from the floor of my really needing to be cleaned up sewing room, and multiple pastel backgrounds. On t...