Family heirlooms are the theme for this month’s column, including a fine example of an American “crazy quilt,” a porcelain night light, an Early American pattern glass carafe, an aeronautical school ...
At last week’s Lancaster-Lebanon Quilt Show, Wayne Kern carried two family heirloom quilts past the art quilts, the quilted sneaker kits and the $10,000 sewing machines. One quilt was lightweight, ...
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 ...
Q While cleaning out an aunt’s estate, we found a box full of fancy embroidered robes and quilts. My great-grandmother taught in China in about 1915 or 1920 so we guessed that these were things she ...