After putting hours into making a quilt, you want to see some financial return. Pricing a handmade quilt doesn't need to be a mystery: Run the numbers, look at the time and materials you have invested ...
People continue to treasure quilting for its historical importance. With gorgeous patterns and fabrics that tell stories, old quilts are imbued with a special, timeless quality. These qualities are ...
When I think spring and summer, I think of quilts with bright colors and garden flowers, I call the cottage collectible. Those quilts are found in grandma’s attic in cedar chests or storage trunks, at ...
In the past, apple-crisp nights and golden days signaled that it was time to ready the house for winter. Cotton flannel or lightweight wool blankets were no longer heavy enough to keep sleepers warm ...
The future, it turns out, hasn't passed quilting by. Most of the quilts on display at the nation's largest quilt show this week may be labeled traditional, but they aren't your grandmother's Baltimore ...
Time was when you could take one look at an African-American quilt and see your whole family. You saw grandpa’s necktie. You saw the baby’s old pajamas, with the faded red and blue balloons, and the ...
PETERSBURG, Neb. (KOLN/Gray News) - A Nebraska woman has marked major milestones in her children’s and grandchildren’s lives with handmade quilts. Lois Zegers said her quilting tradition is now ...