klein meisje quilts

Melissa Kane organized the wonderful quilt of little blocks of children for our guild's raffle about 5 years ago. She put the blocks (m...

This little quilt, just 11 1/2 by 13 inches, was a study for a class I took nearly 20 years ago with Wanda Hanson, now of the wonderful blog...

Thanks again to Lori at Humble Quilts for her delightful quilt-a-long with this project. I really enjoyed using some of my special brown ...

I am working on the binding of a quilt which I love the backing as much as the front. These Alexander Henry fairies were so wonderful. ...

Shoofly from Lori's quilt-along at Humble Quilts. I may decide no borders. The plaid setting squares are from a shirt I took apart. ...

I have half of the half blocks done. Someone asked what Italian Lawn is--lawn is a fine weave fabric, think Liberty of London. The paisl...

The low sun streams into church so beautifully.

Lori over at Humble Quilts is having another of her delightful quilt-alongs using an old shoofly quilt. The bumble bee paisley has been a...

Jacob's Ladder--quilted, bound, sleeved, and labeled. Quilted by Sue DiVarco. Inspired by Bonnie Hunter's encouragement to use ...

Merry Christmas from Chicago!

After a devastating fire in 1953, a barn is rebuilt. This is the barn my sisters and brother and I worked in--cleaning the bulk tank, f...

A new barn is built by my grandfather in 1943. Alas, it is doomed to burn down just 10 years later, struck by lightning. This magnifice...

Uncle Joel, Uncle Donald, cousins Harlan and Kenny, Beth and Lynn and Grandpa. Sioux County, Iowa mid 1960s.

Glenda, Leanne, and Lyle DeVos with Lynn and Janna Dykstra Sioux County, Iowa mid 1960s.

Robert Meerdink and Leroy Dykstra Dad said you could tell that Robert's family was even worse off than theirs because his cousin Robert...

American Gothic Sioux County Iowa, early 1960s.

My grandma Cynthia Dykstra with the curlers, Grandpa Jurrien Dykstra in the hat. Janna and me in the background at work. Beth is the half ...

Dela Vande Hoef Arie Bousema Photographs of friends of my Great Aunt Hattie Scholten. As you can see, fashion was quite the thing even...

Back door: Leroy Dykstra, straight from the fields, with his children, Janna, Lynn, Beth, and Lee. Front door: leaving for church--wearing...

My grandparents, Cynthia (Meerdink) and Jurrien Dykstra behind the plow with their horses. Jerry would buy wild horses from Montana, brea...