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 ...

Hey, hey - I'm starting to get the hang of this video promotion situation! My second video is up and running. It's a little "t...

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, ...

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...

  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...

So, as I mentioned in the post about all the quilt fun last month in Melrose, MA, the library hosted an exhibit of quilts inspired by the h...

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...

  Way back in spring 2015, I received a query for information on repairing an inscribed quilt.  And as they say, the rest is history. J...

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...

  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&...

Hey, hey!  I'll be taking off twice in the next few months for two really great quilt history gatherings!

Yesterday, I got back to researching the history of this inscribed quilt.  (Enlarge photo to see the names.  The ink is fading away....) ...

The amazing saga of this quilt continues.  My research into the names inscribed on this quilt showed that it was made between 1897 and 1...

I did it!  I worked my way through researching all the names I could find on the Melrose, MA quilt! (You can read the story of all t...

Part 4.  A Window on Life in 1897 ( Part 1 tells the background of a quilt inscribed with many names, and how I started my search fo...

Part 3.  Three Intertwined Families   ( Part 1 tells the background of a quilt inscribed with many names, and how I started my search ...