A family memento.  Here's the story the quilt owner told: This quilt was made for us by our friend Shelia in England.  It was given to...

This family heirloom quilt has some unique embroideries and provides a glimpse into the quiltmaker's personality.  (And no, I did not l...

The family story of these three quilts is at Three Quilts, Three Generations - The Story .  Here, I will descirbe the repairs that I made to...

I recently had the pleasure of repairing three heirloom quilts made by three generations of quilters. Two are heavy, wool and flannel crazy ...

I love a dated quilt.  I love a dated quilt with a family story (see full story below).  Combined together....well.... it's simply grand...

A few years ago, I did a lot of research on a quilt with many names inscribed.  It seems to be fund-raising quilt, and was made in Melrose, ...

Wonderful coincidences and quilt stories just keep on coming.  I love quilters!  Here's the newest one to arrive in my inbox: I have i...

The other day, I met up with a quilt I'd made over 30 years ago and forgotten! I got a text from one of the people who grew up a few h...

The quilts in my collection are not pristine museum quality quilts by any stretch of the imagination.  Sometimes I've bought quilts that...

Well, folks, the 1890s quilt I researched for several years and then exhibited last winter is, as they say, the gift that keeps on giving....

We had just a few holiday plans, no travel, no guests, and so I decided that sewing on all sorts of back-burner projects of my own was T...

Well, I think this is a great topic for this put-a-new-calendar-on-the-wall and make-those-happy-wishes time of year. Charm quilts, as ...

I'm starting something new! I've put up my first post as a contributing blogger on the Just Wanna Quilt blog. Just Wanna ...

  There used to be an antique quilt gallery here called the Wild Goose Chase, and I used to work there.  That's where I got my s...

  Now that all the excitement and preparations around the exhibit have come and gone, I'm publishing the compilations of stati...

Here are two heirloom quilts that came to me in need of some TLC.     At some point, someone affixed typed labels that identify the q...

In addition to all the goings on in Massachusetts that I described in the previous post , I spent several days up in Sugar Hill, NH, visitin...

Since my previous post , the events I described then have come to pass.  A 3 1/2 year project had its milestone event.  I’m not going t...

The owner's great-grandmother made this quilt in 1974 for his mother.  It was made from the fabrics of dresses from his mother's ...

So, here's how I had fun on a cool, grey, damp Saturday afternoon. I’m taking the next step in the research into the names on a qui...