Years ago, Madison Ypma’s great-great grandmother Ida Brock Sterling sewed together blocks for a quilt. It was the midst of the Great Depression and Sterling hand sewed the blocks — squares of cloth — ...

The Honey Bees Quilting Guild gathered its charity quilts at its Oct. 23, 2025, meeting. The group made 23 quilts for the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Rogers Park artist and activist has brought together a global community through one unfinished quilt and a hashtag: #RitasQuilt. Much of Shannon Downey's work begins at estate sales ...

Fabric from an abandoned project to make curtains. A stack of flannel that was gathering dust. Scraps from children's quilts. All have been turned into freshly made quilts — for a cause. Crafted by ...

A powerful exhibition of quilts memorializing migrants from Mexico and Central America who have died in the southern Arizona desert in the last 20 years is on display amid intense national debate over ...

TULSA, Okla. — "I started this as an eye catching prop to have outside the show so everybody would go, 'Oh, there must be a quilt show there!'" You could say Jan Kendall's latest creation is stopping ...

With sewing machines that provide quilter-friendly features, innovative sewists can produce stunning quilts that serve both utilitarian and artistic purposes. By Carol Benton Updated Aug 15, 2023 4:50 ...

The family of every California soldier or officer who perished in Afghanistan or Iraq has received or will receive a special quilt to commemorate their fallen hero as have many throughout the nation.

Dante Vena is a UMass Dartmouth professor with a passion for folk art whose interest in Madeiran culture soon will be shared with the masses. Last summer, he abandoned his campus studio and classroom ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- Nearly three dozen quilts were sewn through a partnership between Green Bay elementary schoolers and volunteers from a local church. 33 kids in grades 3-5 at Jackson Elementary ...

Most people go to estate sales in hopes of finding a hidden gem of antique furniture or jewelry – for a bargain price. Shannon Downey goes for the unfinished stitching projects. “I feel like their ...