klein meisje quilts

My neighbor, Steve Johnson gave me this wonderful painting of my grandmother. I knew he had been painting industrial type things, and gave...

Mary and Eleonore, in my small group, have been making spliced log cabins--where you splice together the fabrics, pay no attention to keepin...

Judy encourages us to use stash this month in a quilt for/inspired by our mothers. My mom, (who reads my blog, so I must be careful here) is...

My friend Donna has been playing with optical illusions in her quilts and has developed a pattern. I am honored she asked me to test the pa...

Another crumb quilt--someone asked why I call my plaid quilts cowboy quilts--I like cowboy fabric and find they work well with plaids. I lo...

I have periods of insomnia, nothing terrible, but when I find myself tossing and turning too much, I head downstairs to the davenport. I aw...

I finished my version of Bonnie's Crayon Box. I have been trying to get a handle on the plaid shirt problem in my sewing space. I tack...

I belong to a group of wonderful women called "Tuesday Knitters". Our children were in preschool together, and we would get toget...

Eve and I are just back from a few days in New York, doing touristy stuff, and getting a Chicago angle by visiting the site of our of our fa...

Seth loves my quilts and my fabrics. A few days ago, when a revolution was forming on LeClaire and a banner was needed for the troops, some...

I finished this quilt last year--another cowboy quilt made from thrifted plaid shirts.

Andy and I were married on St Patrick's Day 23 years ago. Here we are early in our married life. We tell people we chose St Patrick...

I am finishing an advent wall hanging for our church auction. I have made many of these over the years adapted from a Debbie Mumm piece--I ...

I have been making crumb blocks from plaid shirts I have taken apart--the great stripe for the border has been on my shelves so long I have ...

I really enjoy teaching--my quilting students are so wonderfully excited about their newly discovered talents.

One irritation with the new blogger is it rotates my photos. I will take time later to fix this, but has anyone else been having this proble...

All the wonderful string quilts showing up on the stashbusters ring got me to make my first string quilt. I had made blocks before, but is ...

I needed two shots to get the cast of thousands (ok, cast of 169). This year, it was "Follow Me" a look at the calling of the wom...

I am getting ready to teach a Buzz Saw class--it has been a while since I made one, so I have been having fun making samples this week. Thi...

Eve decided, like her mother, to make many of her Christmas gifts. Also like her mother, it is the middle of January and there are several ...