klein meisje quilts

Karla Alexander's second book, Stack a New Deck, is excellent for giving me ideas. I made this quilt with humble materials, lots of thri...

Today is the day of the big LeClaire Avenue Egg Hunt, and it looks like there will be no snow, wind, or rain! I hung out over the porch rail...

This week is the big expo here in the suburb of Rosemont. If you go, take the el as the River Road stop is just as close as the parking ram...

My oldest son has developed a craving for chocolate pudding since track practice restarted. I was making the Jello box stuff, and decided I...

My mother makes these amazing smocked blankets for grandchildren. This one was for Seth. She starts with velvet, velveteen, or velour, dra...

My mother and I did handwork while we sat with my father in the hospital last week (knee surgery). I bound three quilts and she worked on a...

This year's Bible Story Theater at our church was the story of Daniel. I was in charge of the lions' costumes--the 4 and 5 year old...

I love this quilt--I made it about 8 years ago from my 1 1/2 inch and 2 1/2 inch strips drawers. Who knew I had this many reds?

I am getting used to a new computer and a new camera. I have a wonderful memory of my grandmother, sitting at the new telephone when we mov...

I love collecting neutrals and have an extensive selection that I pulled from for this quilt. Lots of them are conversationals. I also lik...

A favorite place of mine in Chicago is Foster Avenue Beach. Many years ago, our city in its wisdom, saved most of the lakefront to have pub...

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...