klein meisje quilts

Andy and Seth went fishing this morning, giving me time to finish this crumb pieced top. The blocks are shirt parts and the sashings and bo...

A wonderful side benefit of visiting my sisters is I get to reunite with quilts I have given them over the years. My sisters are repositori...

My dear mother's annual corsage has been the bane of my sisters' and my lives. We get into trouble with delivery every year. We ha...

Eve and I were up to Wisconsin this weekend to help my sister Janna who organized a bridal dress review for her church’s 150th anniversary. ...

This quilt top was made last year in a very cold unheated attic. It is finally quilted and bound and will be auctioned at our church for Ap...

Judy is discussing log cabin sets on Sunshine quilts. This is my favorite set, Streak of Lightning, made in 1997, I think from a Fons and Po...

This little fairy quilt is for an auction at my church. I love making these, have made many over the years. This fairy fabric was from Mic...

No, not by smell or temperature, but by the sight of a pot-hole repair truck on our street--and it isn't even a local election year! I l...

Lucy posts a photograph of my daughter, I post one of her shop! Eve writes: "I haven't taken picture of Warffum yet but here is Luc...

Eve is on a visit to the Netherlands--she is staying on the vanStraalen farm in the north, near Groningen, where I stayed on a youth exchang...

Here is another example of my machine quilting with the serpentine stitch on my Bernina 1530. I call this rivulet style. It is really ef...

We awoke this morning to a lovely street scene, and it was so still all day the snow continues to hang on the trees. It has stayed cold eno...

I had a snow day Friday and used it to work on my bargello. Like Bonnie, I am a thrift store plaid shirt fan, and a popular class here is wh...

Another year of Bible Story Theater, this year celebrating its 30th year at St Pauls UCC in Chicago. This year, it was a review of the past...

I had this as a stack of blocks for a while, then as the center for another long time until I found this fabulous fish fabric for the border...

Happy New Year! We are eating Black-eyed Peas for luck on New Years Day. 2 lbs. black eyed peas, soaked in cold water overnight, drained and...

My parents are here for Christmas. My mother and I love to do handwork together, so I have 9 (!) quilts at the handwork stage for binding. ...

There is snow in Chicago and time again for one of my favorite urban traditions--turning your front steps into a sled run. Seth and neighbo...