Quilt Repair Tidbits.  The next (somewhat) weekly installment of quilt repair tidbits and photos. This week’s tidbit:  A hand-me-down set of...

  The worktable.  Grandmother’s Flower Garden c. 1980 I’m starting a new little outreach project here.  A weekly tidbit and photos.  A new i...

Finding just the right fabrics to restore a vintage or antique quilt can be a challenge.  The chances of The Exact Match are slim.  It's...

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...

Here's the quilt currently on my work table: Quite honestly, Grandmother's Flower Garden is not one of my favorite patterns.  A...

I really enjoyed working on this quilt.  It's a kind of quilt that I have dubbed a "quilt-y quilt" - meaning it personifie...

My friend's grandmother Ella Gardner was a prolific painter.  And she also made quilts.  She painted lovely scenes of rural Wisconsin li...

  Recently, I received my second fantastic quilt history gift of the year.  A friend's neighbor was moving, had some quilt blocks she ...

What does this: (photo IL State Museum ) have to do with this? Answer:  Kampsville, Illinois.

While poking around on the "interwebs", I found a fun vintage photo .  It made me smile, and I hope you'll enjoy it, too. I...

This is a 1930s Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt.  This pattern was very popular in this era, and often made like this one, with a vari...