Hand-crafted, sustainable and incredibly charming, patchwork quilts and fabrics are making a real comeback, and they are much ...
Quilt designer Allen, who makes modern table runners and bed quilts based on traditional Scottish tartans of lowlands and highlands, begins her charming book on Scot-inspired patchwork quilts with a ...
Everyone in the room wore white linen gloves lest the oils from their hands change history. In the world of centuries old hand made quilts small things make a big difference. Purple fades to brown ...
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 ...
Explore the use of color and design while using fabric strips to construct quilt blocks. Nancy and quilt designer, Donna Fenske, explore the use of color and design to achieve a rich depth of tone and ...
In its most basic form, a quilt is two layers of fabric stitched together, often with a layer fof fluffy insulation sandwiched in between. In practice, quilts are a thrillingly diverse category — ...
PHILADELPHIA — Until I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art last month, I’d never heard of Gee’s Bend quilts, which Black women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, started stitching in the 1800s. I’m hazy about ...