It all started a decade ago, when Judi Wortham-Sauls brought her quilts to Ray of Hope Community Church in East Nashville. “We ended the service, and a number of us stood around ooh-ing and ah-ing, ...

Modern American women may be quilting more out of passion than necessity, but they are doing it in a big way. This household craft, which traveled with early settlers to the U.S. and was developed in ...

When Jane Stickle sewed the final stitches into her quilt, she must have been well pleased with her handiwork. She had good reason to be. She had just completed what is still hailed, a century and a ...

“You’ll see their heart in their work; other groups may have more experience and more opportunities and higher education, but with these women the difference comes from inside,” said Carolyn Underwood ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This pieced-work example is one of three late-eighteenth-and-early nineteenth-century quilts that were donated in the ...