Family heirlooms are the theme for this month’s column, including a fine example of an American “crazy quilt,” a porcelain night light, an Early American pattern glass carafe, an aeronautical school ...
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 ...
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 -- ...
I work a full-time job and spend my after-work time parenting my 2-year-old daughter. I get one hour of free time between her bedtime and my own, and every night, I spend it quilting. I've been ...
At last week’s Lancaster-Lebanon Quilt Show, Wayne Kern carried two family heirloom quilts past the art quilts, the quilted sneaker kits and the $10,000 sewing machines. One quilt was lightweight, ...
Quilting teacher Shaw (Stunning Stitches for Crazy Quilts) shares her knowledge of needle arts with this crafty little book of “dazzling diamonds.” Her crazy quilts are modern: they still comprise ...