Subscribe to our RSS feed: The quilt, that cozy bed covering and wildly various art form, is being celebrated for a year by the American Folk Art Museum in a series of exhibitions. First up during ...

The enormous patchwork consists of 240 blue six-pointed stars: “Each star is a body, a human. I get emotional talking about ...

The foundation, and their over 11,000 members, create quilts year-round for veterans. Here in Siouxland, a group of volunteers gathered for ‘Sew Day’. Volunteers spent the better part of four ...

"It was very difficult at times when we were making this quilt," Head said to a room full of people. Sandra Head, one of the approximately 15 women involved in sewing the quilt, said each object ...

Her debut album, Hand Sewn…Home Grown, released in March 1969. It was a selection of country-rock and folk covers from artists like Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, and Chip Douglas. She also covered a ...

"It was very difficult at times when we were making this quilt," Head said to a room full of people. Sandra Head, one of the approximately 15 women involved in sewing the quilt, said each object ...

Warning: this story contains discussion of residential schools and abuse. At first glance, the talking quilt is a large blanket rimmed with colour and dressed with patches. To Sandra Head ...

They sew quilts twice a week with different items attached to keep a patient's hands busy. The quilts cost roughly $50 online; Valerie gives them all away for free. For some of the volunteers ...

“Quilts hung outside safe houses along the Underground Railroad used embedded codes that were sewn into the design, giving an enslaved person on the run vital information on dangers or where to ...