What do you do? “I make T-shirt, memory, baby, Christmas, any type of quilt for any occasion,” Tracy Husch-Lissak said. What is quilting? “It’s three layers of fabric. The backing, the batting and the ...
Learn how to make a quilt by hand for beginners. With this guide, you can avoid common mistakes and learn some beginner quilting techniques. This article honors a gift handed down to us by the pioneer ...
I work a full-time job and spend my after-work time parenting my 2-year-old daughter. I get one hour of free time between her bedtime and my own, and every night, I spend it quilting. I've been ...
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., ...
February is Black History Month, an annual reminder that the story of the African-American experience is far too sweeping and complex to be limited to a four-week span, and shouldn’t be. Perhaps the ...
Like many pioneer women of the burgeoning West, Maude White was used to hardship and loneliness. As the child of homesteaders who grew up in a sod house, and who became a Colorado homesteader herself, ...
It’s been two and a half months since Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today Show Anchor Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her ...