Historians are divided on the question of whether quilts were used to signal runaway slaves during the Underground Railroad era. But the concept is intriguing. The pattern contained in a quilt hung on ...

Both the eagle and stars are outlined with a row of quilting very close to the appliquéd edge. Shell-pattern quilting enhances the eagle. The ground is quilted in a diagonal grid pattern of 8 stitches ...

You name a handicraft, Ann Kraayenbrink has probably done it: knitting, crocheting, embroidery, crewel work, cross stitch, Hardanger embroidery, tole painting, ceramics, macrame, candle wicking. She’s ...

Angela Sprague Kidder of Missoula could hardly have imagined making a hand-stitched Indian star quilt for President Barack Obama, a gift for his inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C. And the ...

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., ...

The Tennessee State Museum’s first new exhibition since its grand opening will be “Between the Layers: Art and Story in Tennessee Quilts.” Slated to open Feb. 8, 2019, and run through May 27, 2019, ...

Fans who appreciate quilts for the works of art they have become are welcome to four days of nothing but quilting during the 16th annual Quilt Odyssey at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center ...