The fragments of our lives and make, Out of life's remnants, as they fall, A thing of beauty, after all. — Douglas Malloch, “The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America.” St. Cloud quilter Margaret ...

A Victorian-era quilt is already chockablock with many different rich fabrics. Look closer and see more layers of decoration. There are embroidered booties, birds, flowers, anchors, bucks and a spider ...

Nancy Baker has one of the wittiest and most serious post-modern minds in Raleigh. On the walls of her Tire Shop, in beautifully painted replicas of 15th and 16th century illuminated manuscripts, an ...

A patchwork of quilt shops and groups in the southwest metropolitan region illustrate the craft's popularity In one breath, Sally Mackey insists she is not a quilter, that her skill is applique -- ...

MUKWONAGO, Wis. - The Crazy Quilters' Annual Quilt Show returned to Mukwonago after being canceled due to the pandemic. Saturday marked the 33rd time the show was held – the first time in two years.

I recently was invited to do an appraisal event for the Clayton Branch of the American Association of University Women. The AAUW is an organization whose mission is to advance equity for women and ...

Q While cleaning out an aunt’s estate, we found a box full of fancy embroidered robes and quilts. My great-grandmother taught in China in about 1915 or 1920 so we guessed that these were things she ...