Leaves, each as unique as a fingerprint, are her multipurpose, magnetic medium. Usually what happens is I get really excited by a leaf a leaf shape or a flower shape and I m interested in seeing how I ...

A Christmas quilt event in a Wisconsin county is featured. Also: holiday projects, including how to make stockings, calendars and gift boxes.

As Aretha Franklin is the queen of soul music, Alex Anderson is the queen of quilting. Most of us know Anderson from her “Simply Quilts” television show, now in reruns, on Home and Garden Television.

Amy Bradley owes her notoriety in the quilting world to a pack of dogs. The Lawrence designer has spent enough time at Bradley Animal Hospital — owned by her veterinarian husband, John Bradley — to ...

A three-person crew spent more than three hours shooting Albert in her Paradise studio as she demonstrated the techniques she uses to create her fabric paintings. What I do mostly is pictorial designs ...

There's something so familiar about a simple quilt. Just its presence on a bed can make a room look inviting and homey. But quilts are not just bed coverings. And they're far from simple. They are ...

Hidden in Plain View was published to great acclaim in 1999. In it, authors Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard related a Charleston, S.C., woman's family lore about slaves in South Carolina who sewed ...