LARIMORE, N.D. -- Big and little, bold- and pastel-colored, Helen Farrell has sewn an array of quilts during the past 50 years or so. She uses some of the wall hangings and table runner quilts to ...
Make big quilts that are easy to piece, yet have great designer impact. Nancy and quilt designer Debbie Bowles use 18" blocks to make large quilts using ideas from Debbie’s versatile BQ pattern ...
A group of crafters in northern Manitoba have been making and collecting dozens of quilts to help bring warmth and comfort to ...
Until last year, Salise Shuttlesworth was, she's quick to say, not a quilt person. "I was 100 levels of clueless," she says. "I visualized my grandmother's bed." And while Salise might not quite be to ...
SEQUIM — When Murph Gerber, 74, quilts, she likes to go big. “I mostly make king-size quilts,” she says inside her Sequim home, standing over a large, beautifully designed quilt in a guest room. “When ...
In Lancaster County, a quilt with radiating circles of colorful squares isn’t a Trip Around the World, it’s a Sunshine and Shadows. That’s the name common among Amish quilters. This type of quilt, ...
When she started Big Sky Quilts in 1988, Joyce Watson didn’t know that quilters are a tight group whose loyalty makes motorcycle gang members seem uncommitted. “I now see my life mission as trying out ...
On Veterans Day, the group Quilts of Valor presented handmade quilts to a dozen veterans. “It actually gave me a lump in my ...