St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Aurora celebrated annual Quilt Weekend Sept. 28-29. More than 100 quilts handmade by ...
styles and patterns used for quilt-making in the past 250 years. The collection also documents the work of specific quilt-makers and commemorates events in American history. Learn more about the quilt ...
I experience the best feeling when I get to see someone open a gift of a quilt that I made. It takes a long time to make a quilt and it’s gratifying to see the joy my gift gave someone.
A Batesville quilt guild called the Rivercity Quiltmakers are using their time and skills to make quilts for children in need ...
“They were making money for the war, supplies for soldiers ... to show a family from a Mennonite community in Kansas two baby quilts made for members of their family. While on a cross-country ...
The St. Mark quilters are busy making as many quilts as they can for the upcoming bazaar next month, but they have also been ...
American Quilt Making exhibit. People of all ages and skills gathered at the Cameron Art Museum to contribute to a unique community art project. They were handed supplies to create individual ...
“When you see how painstaking it is, it’s like birthing a baby. Making a quilt is so time consuming and intense,” she admitted. “But there’s no comparison as to how I feel when I finish ...
and integrity" National Museums Liverpool One woman said that making the quilt had shown her that "even sometimes, our mistakes can be a design" Sharee said the project had helped her deal with ...
“Every time I would make a civil-rights quilt, it was not ever made out of ... color blocks representing her hairstyle. She holds a baby in her lap and looks up at what could be bluebirds ...
This will support the fourth grade’s service learning project of creating quilts to donate. The quilts will be sent to Project Linus, a national organization that delivers blankets to kids in need.
Altogether, the collection shows the progression and notable phases in American quilt-making; provides a history of materials available to the quilt makers and of the techniques practiced; illustrates ...