Make this diagonally striped quilt block using just half square triangles. This block is easy to make and a great way to practice making half square triangles using two different methods. Recently, I ...
I don’t know why, but I’ve always been totally intimidated by quilters. I mean, I’m a mad sewer and seamstress extraordinaire if I do say so myself, but there is something about the little intricacies ...
“Quilting with a Modern Slant” by Rachel May is full of quilting tips and tricks, as well as ideas on how to make a quilt that builds on the aesthetics of traditional and art quilts. Quilting with a ...
It was a foregone conclusion that Rachel D.K. Clark would make quilts. It was part of her family’s heritage. “My great-great-grandma sewed, my great-grandma sewed, my grandma sewed, and my mom sewed,” ...
In a common room at Williams College, a group of students sort through fabric squares, scarlet and indigo, pine green and chocolate. In Great Barrington, fiber artist Karen Eckmeier from Kent, Conn., ...
If the African American tradition of quilting has begun to find its place in the contemporary art world, it’s thanks in no small part to Carolyn Mazloomi, a self-taught quilter who has been a champion ...