klein meisje quilts

I wrote a mystery quilt for my guild's newsletter many years ago, and it has floated upon the web ever since. Every few months I get a ...

Our camera is broken, so I am mining the data base of old photographs. Here is my sister, Janna, and our niece, Faith, on Christmas 2003. ...

Here is the first cat quilt I made--Catherine is working on a free form style that looks great--check out her progress. This one is all reds...

Now, I grew up on a farm in Iowa, and there is no more beautiful place on earth than that place in Sioux County, but there is a magical beau...

Yesterday morning the shoes were filled with chocolates--Seth (8) asked the question we have anticipated, "How come St Nikolaas only c...

My sister, Beth, loves to quilt, but her busy teaching and lecturing schedule leaves little time. She fits in quilting one hour a week duri...

(((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...