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 ...

COLUMBIANA, Alabama -- The Friends of the Columbiana Library are organizing a celebration of quilts on Nov. 2 with a walking tour through the city that will visit historical places and view ...

Patricia A. Turner is a folklorist on the faculty of UC Davis and the author of "Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters." The e-mail came with a puzzling message in the ...

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 ...

You've probably slept under an old quilt at some point in your life. A patchwork blanket that's been passed down through family members or styled at the beach house you frequented growing up. It's the ...

I love sewing and I am busy making a hand sewn patchwork quilt using hundreds of different Liberty designs. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get unlimited access to the ...

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 ...

PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin resident Jan Frazier, a quilt enthusiast, never thought much of her grandmother's large patchwork quilt while she was growing up. All she knew was that it's old and made of velvet ...

Made up of more than 3,000 quilt squares from all 50 states, this 500-foot creation weaves together personal stories to mark ...

The designs echo traditional quilt designs - log cabin, star of Bethlehem, flying geese, bow tie, snowball - but with improvised variations.The quilts stray also from most traditional quilt ...