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 ...

What: Ben’s Bells promote kindness and community involvement. Each week a person who makes Tucson better is “belled.” Last week’s recipient: Gladys Mack. Nominated by: Kim Hilty, registered nurse. Why ...

DALTON To speed the passage of long winter's days spent indoors, I have dusted off my sewing machine and started a few new projects. I've long admired quilts, and the patience required to complete ...

MAKING patchwork quilts for your home might sound like a whimsical hobby from times gone by. But textile artist Kaffe Fassett is out to prove that quiltwork - which involves sewing many different ...

“Grandma’s quilts have love in every stitch” is a popular saying in sewing circles; for Santa Barbaran Debra Blake, the sentiment rings true. When she was a child, Blake’s grandmother would while away ...

South Australian quilter Chris Poulton stumbled across a website for "Aussie hero quilts" while searching online for a quilt pattern of the Australian flag in April. The group makes patchwork quilts ...

In 2015, after Taruna Sethi moved from the US to Mumbai, she discovered quilting as a hobby. Soon, she started Simply Beautiful Always to promote quilting as a hobby in India. After completing her ...

Traditionally restricted to thrifty housewives, who pieced together elaborate patchwork for their families, quilting has moved on to a commercial level, slowly losing the personal touch that made ...

[Brand AMP] Godhadis are traditional hand-stitched patchwork quilts. The tradition of Godhadi making, most often from old sarees, is practiced in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and parts of Madhya ...

Ruth McKendry is a well-known textile expert and author of Quilts and Other Bedcoverings. Her personal collection of more than 300 quilts was acquired by the National Museum of Civilization in the ...