People continue to treasure quilting for its historical importance. With gorgeous patterns and fabrics that tell stories, old quilts are imbued with a special, timeless quality. These qualities are ...

Learn how to make a quilt by hand for beginners. With this guide, you can avoid common mistakes and learn some beginner quilting techniques. This article honors a gift handed down to us by the pioneer ...

I don’t know why, but I’ve always been totally intimidated by quilters. I mean, I’m a mad sewer and seamstress extraordinaire if I do say so myself, but there is something about the little intricacies ...

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 ...

Once upon a time the patchwork quilt was seen as a cheap way to keep warm and cut heating bills. These days, however it can be big business. A magazine is offering readers the chance to make their own ...

Hillary Griffin, center, learns to sew a standard quilt block called "orange peels" from Valerie Luberecki during a meeting of the Modern Quilt Guild in Raleigh. Liz Condo newsobserver.com Since the ...

Bear’s Quilt Shop in Garden Grove doesn’t try to be eye pleasing. Fabric is stuffed into the corners of the warehouse and classroom. Sewing machines, thread and fabric cutters lay strewn across work ...

Jerold Thompson’s mother made the blocks for this quilt from patterns published by The World-Herald in the 1930s. The blocks were in pieces until recently. thompsons Lloyd and Alice Thompson were ...