We do NOT provide a manual for this project. There are many acceptable books about quilting that are available at fabric and other stores. The Extension Office can order a notebook from Nebraska. This ...
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 — ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Gale White of East Petersburg hatched the idea to create a community-based quilt project depicting her Traditions of America neighborhood, she was hoping for seven people to help. But after she ...
Inside what initially seems like a well-appointed quilt shop with bolts of fabrics and quilt-making equipment are a few rooms devoted to the museum-quality display of quilts. It’s there that, on April ...