A friendship quilt is like a well-autographed yearbook that keeps you warm. To add something personal, a quiltmaker sends fabric swatches to friends to sign and then sews the patches into the quilt’s ...

Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States. Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women looks beyond quilting as a utilitarian practice. It reveals historical quilting ...

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, ...

Featured quilter Jane Burch Cochran explains why “more is more.” Watch video clip below (2:08). Quilt National has been described as the premier exhibition of contemporary art quilts in the country.

After retiring from work as a nurse's aide in 1992, Ella Mae Brooks "was bored, so bored." After teaching herself how to sew and discovering she enjoyed it, Brooks became a prolific maker of free-form ...

Spend enough time driving and you’ll start to question the roadside fixtures you take for granted. After figuring out the purpose behind the brightly colored balls on power lines and the metal stars ...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - Quilting is a skill I have yet to master, but not because my mother didn't try to teach me. As a child, I watched her diligently work at a long table, numerous fabric ...