klein meisje quilts

My niece Emilee asked me to plan a signature quilt for her wedding to her Andy last September. (We have three Andy's in the family no...

I thought I had one shoe box of 2 inch squares--then this weekend found another that was pretty close to being full. In a quest to find a...

I remember this cake! It was beautiful, mom! It looks like 3 candles, so 54 years ago.  We celebrated at a new restaurant--the Dutch a...

It is huge! About 84 by 102 inches. The unit (finishing 6 inches) is a rail fence, with two rails made from 2 1/2 inch cut squares and th...

I saw this idea on Aunt Marti's blog from a kit called "Bit 'o Color" from Nala's shop. http://www.52quilts.com/201...

This quilt was made from the tutorial on Claire Witherspoon's blog Cspoonquilt. She wrote it inspired by a vintage quilt posted by B...

My 2 1/2 inch square shoebox has become two shoeboxes and I have been looking for a project to use them. I saw a picture of a quilt using ...

It was such a delight making this quilt. If you click the label below, you will be brought to all posts I made while making the quilt, alo...

I keep making more blocks, heading to set it 7 by 8. It is fun working with the odd prints from my shelves (and from my floor...).

Claire Witherspoon over at Cspoonquilt has put together a tutorial inspired by an antique quilt from Barbara Brackman's blog. Here...

Pieces cut 1 1/2 inch squares, made into 64 patch blocks, with 32 each solids and scraps. I didn't do any strip piecing for this--all...

It was so much fun to make this design again. I used lots of odd fabrics. Each cross is cut from 2 1/2 in strips, with one 6 1/2 inch...

In my small group we choose a fabric type for the others to give us on our birthdays. Kathryn asked for strips of fabrics we were working wi...

It is nearly finished! I haven't posted about this quilt since February. After a rapid start, it needed to be set aside due to a...

This little doll quilt was made from my neighbor Lorraine's stash. I will give it to the Block Party this year for the raffle. I work...

I made this parament for my father-in-law's funeral ten years ago. I was happy to see it in use this morning in the chapel at St Pauls...

Here are some photographs from Eve's graduation from Wellesley College a year ago today. I was delighted my mother and sister Janna we...