klein meisje quilts

The news this morning of Pete Seeger's death yesterday had me set aside my current project and instead join Terry's Treasures...

Working on a Chinese Coins quilt, using much of my 1 1/2 by 2 1/2 inch rectangle bin, and lots of my mother's scraps. Solid is Kona Co...

Christmas in the Little House, Henny, Lynn, Janna, Leroy. Farm north of Hull, Iowa, 1959. Note the most wonderful curtains ever, this tim...

Mom made the hounds tooth skirts and vests--they were reversible to solid grey wool. Note the most wonderful curtains ever.

One delight of living on LeClaire are the neighbor gifts--little somethings special we treat each other to for Christmas. This year we are g...

Attempt 3 for a holiday photo. This is the best of 4. Why do I even try? Happy Thanksgiving.

I submitted two quilts to the Fine Art of Fiber exhibit at the Chicago Botanic Garden. They were hung together at my request, because t...

That is my mother on the left. She rocked red lipstick. About 1947.

Hendrika Scholten and Jennie about 1920. I'm in Iowa with my mother. Watch for more from the archives.

  When I learned how to drive car (I had been driving tractor since age 7) the confusion of that additional third pedal lead to driving p...

Leroy with his daughters. Janna at the piano, Beth with the toy basket, Lynn with the sewing cards, Leroy reading the Sioux City Journal. ...

I told her she was blocking the quilt.

The cats were sample blocks for a class and the pinwheels were just playing with plaids. I kept adding parts till the top came together. ...

This was made for my dear friend, neighbor, and quilting partner Sharon Sliter Johnson. We try to have tea together weekly. And, since...

I drove in sunshine with the sky nearly perfectly bifurcated between fluffy white clouded skies and, to the north, intense storms.