Occasionally,  I get requests to mend things other than quilts.  This is Seminole patchwork, a technique developed among the Seminole people...

I absolutely love this quilt!  If it had been in a shop rather than coming to me for repair, I might have just "had" to buy it.  P...

Taking good care of antique and vintage quilts is taking good care of family, textile, and social history. It’s a wonderful journey!  P...

Do you know how there can be a project with one little glitch that ends up defining the whole process even though the project was otherwise ...

 I've set the dates for my next Preserving Our Quilt Legacy Virtual Workshop!  *** January 28 - February 25, 2023 *** The sessions will ...

The category "Hawaiian quilt" probably conjures up the well-known style of quilt developed in Hawaii.  These quilts use two large ...

A customer sent me two Double Wedding Ring quilts made by her grandmother.  She asked if I could take pieces off of the more “loved up” qui...

subtitle:  When the Living Room Becomes a Video Studio sub-subtitle:  You're all invited to my Preserving Our Quilt Legacy Virtual Works...

Here's what my living room looks like when it turns into a video production studio!   Martha and I are pleased that our February worksho...

Hello!  Martha Spark and Ann Wasserman are hereby announcing our brand new Virtual Quilt Restoration Workshop !  

  This quilt has been on a magical journey of rediscovery. It was sent to me for repairs a few years ago.  When I told the owner that I&...

It's always both sad and wonderful when someone brings me a beloved family quilt that has, well, seen better days, but is still quit...

This was one of those times when repairing a quilt was all about saving family history and sweet memories. Here's the email messag...

One of the nicest things about repairing quilts is that some really marvelous quilts cross my path.  I get to see and work on such a wide ra...

I haven't posted anything about vintage clothing repair in a long time.  Here comes an absolutely lovely item - a 1920s vintage beaded p...

  The repair of this Dutchman's Puzzle quilt was especially meaningful to me.  The owner is a daughter-in-law of a woman I became frie...

Quilts can carry so much love and so many memories.  Here's one such quilt that came to me for repair.   The owner told me: My mom...

(I inadvertently posted this a few days ago, long before I was done writing it.  Here it is in it's final form!) "It just looke...

Here's a nice old quilt with two large, dog-chewed holes.  Needless to say, this is never a happy circumstance.... The first st...

  I made a Renaissance-style gown for myself.  I belong to a little group that plays for English country dancers (as seen at any ball you&...