On May 3 and 4, I’m participating in the Global Quilt Connection’s Sampler Platter program.  I’ll be joining 17 other quilt teachers, who’...

A couple of years ago, I told Part 1 of this story, in which I mended a memory quilt for a customer.  She shared its sweet story for me to s...

  Here is why people treasure quilts.  This quilt holds so many loving memories, symbolizes such a great story, and inspired this beautiful ...

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 customer sent me a quilt for repair, and included photos of her collection of family quilts.  She gave me permission to share them with yo...

Well, well, well.  The story continues.  The backstory for this post can be found in two previous posts: Flexner Family Names on a Signature...

I really fell in love with this "homey" log cabin.  It's such a cozy look - and feel, too, as the fabrics are well-loved and ...

I've just received a wonderful story in my email.  It comes from a woman whose family quilt I've just repaired.  If anyone ever ask...

  This is a stand-out crazy quilt, isn't it?   I generally think of Victorian crazies as having so many more blacks and maroons, browns ...

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, ...

Yes, I'm a day late for the Solstice, but better late than never, I figure.  Let's slow down for a while and appreciate the cycles ...

I posted a few days ago about how about a quilt made in Iowa 1910 is connected to my ancestors and family members.  At one point in my writ...

  You'll find the full backstory to this post on a post from April, 2018.  Here's a short summary. Back in the 1980s, I'd found...

Hi, everyone.  My recent three weeks of sewing have been deep and meaningful. As some of you know, I have been doing some sewing for t...

read the story of this quilt Why do I like repairing quilts?  My academic background is in anthropology, which taught me about how mu...

  I did a major restoration job on this heirloom quilt.  For before and after photos, close-ups of the fabrics I used, etc. read, Pinwhe...

This quilt measures a whopping 93" x 109" !  The blocks are about 11 1/4".  I think many of the fabrics date to the 1860s and...

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....

  Just about three years ago, I posted about a quilt I repaired.  The great-granddaughter who brought me the quilt for repair wrote the ...

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...