klein meisje quilts

The binding is the last place you get to do something wonderful for your quilt. Usually I select smaller prints so that the binding is st...

Christmas 1966

  Temecula Quilt Co. had a delightful series for Christmas 2011. I have wanted to make this quilt since, and finally did. Times four. B...

In a blender, mix: 4 eggs 3/4 cup flour 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp cardamom 2 tablespoons sugar 2 cups milk Preheat oven to 450 degrees. M...

Finished this morning for my grand-niece Meta Rose.

My nieces Faith, Emilee, Hannah

Happy Birthday, Janna! School year 1966-1967 Beth, Kindergarten Lynn, grade 3 Janna, grade 6

My mother Henrietta and her sister Betty. Mothers Day 2013

Mom making root beer, about 1973. Mom would make several batches root beer every summer. We first would let it ferment in the attic, un...

My sister, Beth, is awarded her doctorate this spring from the University of Northern Iowa. Her dissertation is Designing Engineering Educ...

Inspired by the quilt pictured in the frontispiece of Elise Schebler Roberts' The Quilt: A History and Celebration of an Amer...

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...