Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our handy beginner's guide to quilting you'll learn how to sew a quilt and discover everything you need to know to create a ...

Learn how to make a quilt by hand for beginners. With this guide, you can avoid common mistakes and learn some beginner quilting techniques. This article honors a gift handed down to us by the pioneer ...

What do you do? “I make T-shirt, memory, baby, Christmas, any type of quilt for any occasion,” Tracy Husch-Lissak said. What is quilting? “It’s three layers of fabric. The backing, the batting and the ...

A patchwork quilt covering a bed in a country B&B or hanging on a museum wall evokes nostalgia for simpler times. Using simple shapes—triangles, squares, trapezoids, octagons—and the clever ...

In a common room at Williams College, a group of students sort through fabric squares, scarlet and indigo, pine green and chocolate. In Great Barrington, fiber artist Karen Eckmeier from Kent, Conn., ...

Melody Johnson describes herself as an artist whose medium for the last 24 years has been quiltmaking. Johnson's quilts have been exhibited in national shows, and her major awards include a 1995 ...

Generations of quilters didn't think of themselves as artists or their creations as art, especially those who pieced and ...

Kim Davis, owner of the Mountain Mermade quilting retreat in Heber City, said she named her business after the mindful reset that comes with sewing.

When Sheri Bradway started making quilts to help comfort mothers of fallen police officers in 2014, she didn’t anticipate ...