klein meisje quilts

I love meteor showers; something I miss most from living on the farm is the sky--morning, noon, and night. We had great sunrises and sunset...

I was lamenting my lack of time/energy/inclination to accomplish anything domestic lately. My wonderful neighbor Sharon suggested we spend ...

The rolling start of the school year is in full steam. Andy teaches year round. I started mid August, my grad-student nephew who lives he...

Block Party time again. It was a glorious day, perfect weather, and a cast of thousands. We took a block party portrait I will post when ...

The complex beauty of plaids makes them ideal for simple patterns. I adapted a Moda pattern I saw on the net to make this top. The large b...

I've been playing with leftover trimmings of the Bordello/Bargello quilt of a few months ago. I had 1/3 yard of a great red Kona Cott...

After the Oklahoma City City bombing in 1995 a group of us on QuiltNet held a fundraising raffle. Participants sent in a fat quarter of fab...

My neighbor Margaret died this winter at the age of nearly 90. She moved into the house in 1953, and was instrumental in making the block a...

This little quilt 24" by 39" is one of my favorites. It was made in about 1990 and has some of my early use of shirt parts in t...

So I am turning 50 in a couple of weeks and yesterday TWO AARP cards arrived in the mail--one in my maiden name and one in my married name....

An American alligator measuring approximately 4 1/2 feet long and weighing 45 pounds was trapped in the Chicago River. (Tribune photo by Ale...

(See my May 7th post) From my sister Janna: Okay.... So I'm cleaning out Mom and Dad's refrigerator and find Mom's Mother's ...

Here is my red and green and neutral version of Bonnie Hunter's Carolina Crossroads. It was all-but-borders for quite a while. (I was ...

I don't think I've ever shown these quilts, the first made in 1996--pattern is from an old book on stars, this one was set into Burg...

So, along with the coyotes and cougars and deer, the kids are outside right now watching Johnny Depp film a movie!

Judy Laquidara has been showing deer in her back yard in the wilds of Missouri. Last week, here in the middle of Chicago, Seth was playing a...

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. ...