January’s History Café featured English paper piecing quilting and was taught by special guest speaker, Patti Fix. Fix showed some of her own work and directed attendees in learning this unique way of ...

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 ...

What do you think of when you see a quilt? A practical object? A work of art? A treasured family heirloom? Quilts, more so than many objects, have managed to bring all of these identities together.

"Quilting has this rich tradition and people make these very personal, cherished heirlooms but paper piece quilting often requires that people work from patterns that other people designed," said ...

Stanford University computer science graduate student Mackenzie Leake has been quilting since age 10, but she never imagined the craft would be the focus of her doctoral dissertation. Included in that ...