The fragments of our lives and make, Out of life's remnants, as they fall, A thing of beauty, after all. — Douglas Malloch, “The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America.” St. Cloud quilter Margaret ...
A Victorian-era quilt is already chockablock with many different rich fabrics. Look closer and see more layers of decoration. There are embroidered booties, birds, flowers, anchors, bucks and a spider ...
Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell. C&T Publishing, $29.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-60705-771-0 Aller (Allie Aller’s Crazy Quilting), a Washington state quilter, and Bothell, a Kansas crazy-quilting ...
Clouston, an Australian quilt teacher who grew up in South Africa, presents her fabulous crazy quilt composed of colorful fabrics cut in hexagons, then embroidered, beaded, and beribboned. In her ...
In one breath, Sally Mackey insists she is not a quilter, that her skill is applique --stitching fabric onto a larger background. In the next, she says, face serious, "Quilting is my life. I live and ...
A patchwork of quilt shops and groups in the southwest metropolitan region illustrate the craft's popularity In one breath, Sally Mackey insists she is not a quilter, that her skill is applique -- ...