My first experiences with quilts were sketchy. When we’d make a winter visit to the farm, Grandma pulled out suspect specimens from the darker recesses of closets. Faded and moth-bitten, the quilts ...

Queer quilters at work during a workshop in Eliza Fernand’s Rogers Park studio Credit: Eliza Fernand I first found artist Eliza Fernand through a flier in a north-side coffee shop. Next to a menu for ...

We even found heirloom quilts with timeless patchwork patterns. There’s no better night’s sleep than a chilly fall evening with the windows cracked and layers of plush bedding to curl up in. If your ...

Explore the use of color and design while using fabric strips to construct quilt blocks. Nancy and quilt designer, Donna Fenske, explore the use of color and design to achieve a rich depth of tone and ...

A patchwork quilt covering a bed in a country B&B or hanging on a museum wall evokes nostalgia for simpler times. Using simple shapes—triangles, squares, trapezoids, octagons—and the clever ...

PHILADELPHIA — Until I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art last month, I’d never heard of Gee’s Bend quilts, which Black women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, started stitching in the 1800s. I’m hazy about ...

At 95 years young, Pearl Burton, a resident of HC-One’s Hepworth House Care Home in Stanley, Wakefield, continues to captivate everyone with her stories of adventure, quilting, and lifelong passion ...

Everyone in the room wore white linen gloves lest the oils from their hands change history. In the world of centuries old hand made quilts small things make a big difference. Purple fades to brown ...