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Members of quilting guilds in the county will each contribute a block, or section of the quilt, depicting one of 12 recognizable McHenry county barns.
I learned in the Army that you need to be careful what you volunteer for. To this day I still hesitate and think hard before I volunteer for anything.
Bothell, a crazy quilting specialist with more than 20 years of experience, helps others whose imaginations might fail when decorating the seams of quilts in this delightful collection of stitches.
The Census Bureau’s quilt, expected to tour the region before being offered for display to a museum next spring, will have to blend into the tapestry of other millennium-inspired events around ...
The North Suburban Quilters Guild will be hosting its biannual quilt show, “Little Bits of Whimsy,” on May 17-18 at Judson University in Elgin. It will feature more than 200 quilts from ...
The channel quilt is 100% organic cotton and also uses cotton batting to give the quilt a bit of extra fluff, while keeping it light. This results in a breathable quilt that Terri reported left ...
From the days of formal quilting bees have come today's generation of quilt guild and all-night quilting get-togethers. "It can be a very solitary art, but it can also be very communal," Stewart said.
The Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration War of 1812 Quilt Exhibit features 42 cot-to-coffin quilts.
The Seabreeze Quilt Guild is a small, but vibrant group, currently in its forty-first year, and about to hold its all important and bi-annual fundraiser and quilt exhibit. Like everything else ...
Hoyme, who was the director for 28 years, greatly expanded the camp right from the start of his time as camp director in 1980 ...
A good bit of the time Gladys quilts six hours a day. The Children's Hospital asked for twin quilts she made twenty and it took over 2-thousand hours to get it done.
HEFLIN — For some a quilt is nothing more than a multi-layered textile that adds color to a room. For lifelong Cleburne County resident Ruth Piper, 90, though, her quilt has a quarter-century ...