When Jane Stickle sewed the final stitches into her quilt, she must have been well pleased with her handiwork. She had good reason to be. She had just completed what is still hailed, a century and a ...
Modern American women may be quilting more out of passion than necessity, but they are doing it in a big way. This household craft, which traveled with early settlers to the U.S. and was developed in ...
When people talk about North Country life, the picture is almost always framed by lack. So this year, we're trying to flip the script. Feb 12, 2019 — When people talk about North Country life, the ...
Keeping the electricity bill low is not easy to do during winter's cold months but one woman has found a unique way to do it. Mount Isa quilt collector and maker Bev Wilmot said her bill is lower this ...
Alteneder, who blogs about crafts at Joe, June, and Mae, delivers an enthusiastic, if somewhat intimidating, primer on using foundation paper piecing to create “cute, colorful” quilt blocks with ...
It all started a decade ago, when Judi Wortham-Sauls brought her quilts to Ray of Hope Community Church in East Nashville. “We ended the service, and a number of us stood around ooh-ing and ah-ing, ...
October is one of the favorite months for couples to marry, as 10 is a lucky number indicating the perfection of married life. For tradition-minded couples, an indispensable part of the arrangements ...
Lillian Beattie didn’t make her first quilt until she was 60 years old. She had traveled to the 1939 New York World’s Fair and noticed that of all the quilts in a quilting exhibition, not one had ...