klein meisje quilts

At Cafe Brauer for the Lincoln Park Community Shelter benefit. The house quilt brought $900!

A good reason to keep a blog is I can search back to just when I made something. This top was put together in 2008 from blocks made long ...

In doing the quilt sort and stacking, I ran across several "all but..." quilts--missing bindings, labels, final stitching of sle...

Days of the treadle.

672 spools. At least 100 of them made with scraps from my mother's stash. There are a couple of duplicates, but most fabrics used...

Sometimes I am really persnickety about not twisting seam allowances. Not very often--I am usually quite laissez faire about it, to the p...

The quilt is nearly completed. Sewn by members of St Pauls United Church of Christ and made with fabrics donated by the congregation. (We...

Stacked about 50 quilts into Eve's former wardrobe. (I need a second or third wardrobe to fit the rest.) The kids are in a minimal...

Beth asked me to chronicle how I go about making a liturgical piece. I've made many stoles for ministers over the years. I am re...

This is a recipe from Andy's family, the Cervasio and Sorace families. They immigrated from Calabria. Andy said his mother and his gr...

   Finished my zig zag top. No borders. Set it 9 by 9, so 81 blocks. Each block measures 9 inches square, made with 3 inch finished half...

I am starting to put them together.

Looking southwest Looking northeast Looking south We had a party for Andy's work this week at the former Sears Tower. We were...

Finally some pictures of the stole in action on Epiphany! The Rev. Matt Fitzgerald of St Pauls United Church of Christ, Chicago.

These is the Scholten cousins but we are at my Dykstra grandparents as they had the big house on our farm, and there were way too many Sch...

A wonderful activity when visiting my mother and my sisters is I also get to visit my quilts! Top--from one of the first issues of...