Justin Yong is a Toronto-based photographer whose work dried up when the pandemic hit last spring. With idle time on his hands, he borrowed a sewing machine from his mother and took up quilting. Now ...
As searches for quilting patterns surge and Covid quilt-alongs explode online, newcomers to the hobby are channelling a centuries-old Irish tradition: quilting for human connection. When Sarah Harris ...
The art of quilting dates as far back as the late-18th century and the early 19th century, when most women made quilts out of necessity instead as a leisurely activity. Over time, however, the craft ...
He’s an asshole,” Harvey Fierstein says as he approaches his Gammill long-arm quilting machine, which dominates his Connecticut art studio. The industrial-size device includes a computer interface for ...
Jenny Doan with a quilt in progress. (Photo: Missouri Star Quilt Co.) Every month of the year, the tiny town of Hamilton, Missouri, (population: 1,800) finds itself playing host to between 5,000 and ...