Peek into Patricia Joy’s teaching box and see a mishmash of ribbons, beads, embroidery, spools of thread and sewing supplies. At first glance, these things don’t fit with the romantic month of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

You`ve heard of a crazy quilt, but how about a crazy quilter? That`s what one Evanston man nicknamed his wife after she signed up for a Midnight Madness quilting class at Cotton Pickers` Fabrics in ...

In one breath, Sally Mackey insists she is not a quilter, that her skill is applique --stitching fabric onto a larger background. In the next, she says, face serious, "Quilting is my life. I live and ...

The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum exhibition is not the last word on quilts or even the Gee's Bend quilts. Textile art is on display around the Bay Area, which also has a many organizations devoted to ...

Crazy Quilt Farms looks like it could have been plucked from the pages of a storybook. With its barn-red storefront, rainbow-colored patio tables, delicious food, assorted gift items and a multitude ...

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 -- ...