Jeffrey Brown visits a small town in Alabama whose quilts have been discovered by the art world. 80-year-old Arlonzia Pettway made her first quilt at age 13. Her first memory of a quilt goes back ...
Linda Kruetzkamp fondly remembers a “Sunbonnet Sue” quilt block that her grandmother Henrietta Engres had. This is the first quilt pattern that Linda remembers seeing when she was a little girl. So ...
Celebrating National Quilting Day with a gift of Amish quilts Laura Baptiste Untitled (Old Maid's Puzzle). Holmes County, Ohio, circa 1930. This is the first quilt the Brown’s purchased, in 1976, that ...
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 ...
ST. PETER — In the quilting world, Darlene Zimmerman, known as the "Feedsack Lady," has done it all. Zimmerman, of Belle Plaine, has written quilting books, created patterns and designed fabrics and ...