HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO ‒ Christina Marriott held up a piece of crookedly cut fabric and contemplated how to best stitch it into a quilt headed for Congress. The square of white cloth was about to be sewn ...
Lesyslie Rackard, standing next to the quilt she stitched herself, called "Oh Freedom, Oh Freedom." The quilt is a tribute to the Black soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War. On this week’s Joy ...
If you walked into the Lake City Area Senior Center on a Friday afternoon, you would find fabric scattered about.
A square is always a rectangle, but a rectangle is not always a square. Similarly, all quilting machines are sewing machines, but not all sewing machines are quilters. The distinction is slight. A ...
The Countess of Wessex showed off her sewing skills during a reception for a group of Girl Guides at Buckingham Palace this afternoon. Sophie, who spent the early part of this week in Zambia where she ...
If you collect quilts or own grandma's favorite quilt, you know how crucial it is to take good care of a homemade bedspread. Vintage quilts are made from lightweight fabrics and hand-sewn, which means ...
The best sewing machines are workhorses that can do it all: mend holes on clothes, make fun costumes, piece together quilts and craft scrunchies, for starters. What’s more, they’re built to last. Case ...
The words top plaque after plaque in corners of The Art Institute of Chicago, accompanying a cotton quilt top, an embroidered wool rug, a baptismal certificate from 1809. “Artist Unknown.” Looking at ...