klein meisje quilts

Lori over at Humble Quilts has another wonderful sew-a-long where she adapts an antique quilt to design a doll quilt. Because I had haul...

I joined in on Bonnie Hunter's split 9-patch project of 2013. It is made with 2 1/2 inch cut squares and half-square triangles. I used...

Sew-and-flip triangles techniques are good to use in some units, but they are more complicated than they look. (There is some waste in m...

 Progressing with my Goodnight, Irene from the sew-along organized by Terry's Treasures . I am following Julie's lead in scaling...

  Chinese Coins 78 by 90 inches. 3510 pieces--1755 prints/plaids, 1755 solid blue.  I have been enjoying the process of making this q...

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...