Mark Darrell’s life began to unravel on a Tuesday morning in September, 2004, in Anbar Province. A marine staff sergeant, a steady, seventeen-year veteran with only a week to go in his Iraq rotation, ...

January’s History Café featured English paper piecing quilting and was taught by special guest speaker, Patti Fix. Fix showed some of her own work and directed attendees in learning this unique way of ...

Modern American women may be quilting more out of passion than necessity, but they are doing it in a big way. This household craft, which traveled with early settlers to the U.S. and was developed in ...

It all started a decade ago, when Judi Wortham-Sauls brought her quilts to Ray of Hope Community Church in East Nashville. “We ended the service, and a number of us stood around ooh-ing and ah-ing, ...

Are quilt makers artists or crafters? This question has been kicking around creative circles all over the world for scores. But, ask any serious quilter around the Palos Verdes Peninsula and they will ...

NORTH BAY — When Mary Schroeder was a young dancer, someone once told her the difference between a good dancer and a very good dancer was time, persistence and commitment. Now, more than 20 years ...

Virginia author Emilie Richards has completed the second book in a series about Shenandoah Valley, community and quilting. Richards has written “Endless Chain” (Mira Books, $19.95), the second book in ...