klein meisje quilts

I asked Andy and Seth to take pictures of me sewing the other night. Between the two of them there are about 20 images, most of which I w...

Tricia Cribbs at Turning Twenty had a sew-a-long last year with a design by Sue Carter, Seeing Stars.  12 block patterns, each made in t...

  North and South, staggered set  We had geese when I was little--until they kept knocking me down so they became meals. We had th...

This is part three of the Gwen Marston Style sew-a-long. Lori at: http://humblequilts.blogspot.com/ started the medallion sew-a-long ...

These recent tips are reflections on my housekeeping skills which are sorely lacking. I have some lengths of silk habotai 12 momme from s...

I finished the binding on this churn dash this week. It was started when I was teaching two friends quilting techniques in classes at my ...

Looking southeast. Another in a series of roof top parking garage views.

Some pieces of fabric love to collect threads and bits. Keeping a lint roller near the iron makes it easier to lift off those threads. I ...

A friend is moving to a retirement community in Arizona and asked me to take this quilt. It is a lovely coxcomb. My guess from the fab...

The Needle Shop has re-opened as Oak Fabrics at 3738 North Lincoln Avenue here in Chicago. My neighbor Sharon, with whom I share and cele...

I had such fun making the flying geese shape for the pinwheel quilt I decided to keep with them and make a geese in flight block for the n...

It turned out bigger than I first planned. 120 blocks set 10 to a row for 12 rows. 84 by 96 inches. I used rectangles at the beginning ...

The postage stamp is completed! I loved every minute of making this quilt. No strip piecing involved--each block has 32 pieces of a cons...

I love this quilt. Thank you to Claire at Cspoonquilt for posting the block and the Barbara Brackman reference to an antique quilt. http...

Very small blocks tend to curl after pressing. I press a small stack, then place a ruler on top of them until they cool. They stay flat!...

I am cutting out a lot of flying geese shapes for some pinwheel blocks. I use the Companion Angle for the geese but I start and end the ...

My making quilts with blocks of a solid figure and a wild print background continues! It started a year ago with the ships block inspired...