klein meisje quilts

Seth and I  have a garden this year!

It is once again block party! Our block's 58th anniversary party--one of the first and longest running block parties in Chicago. It is...

August marks 10 years of blogging for me here at klein meisje quilts. Above is a picture of me at about age 8 with my Grandpa Scholten, wh...

It is set 8 by 10 blocks, measuring 72 by 90 inches. 80 blocks, 9 inches finished. It was so much fun again using the wild prints from...

I am making solid churn dashes on wild backgrounds--the same theme that I used for the Ships quilt. My neighbor Sharon called me over t...

I am participating in Turning Twenty's block of the month "Seeing Stars". Sign ups are now closed, but you can purchase the...

Here is my completed top from Deanna's Calico Rose sew-a-long on her Wedding Dress Blue blog. Thanks Deanna! https://weddingdressbl...

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...