After my husband had been out of work for an extended period of time, we sold our house in Bothell, Washington, and moved to Corvallis, Oregon, in 2005. This was a very…
Martha DeLeonardis is the author of the newest AQS book, T-Shirt Quilts Made Easy. Martha is an internationally known, award-winning quilt artist who grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from Ohio…
Nancy Prince is the author of the AQS book, Thread Painting with Style. Nancy’s introduction to needle and thread came from a very creative mother who introduced her at an early age…
Meet Judy Laquidara the author of the new AQS book 60 Pieced Quilt Borders: Mix and Match. Judy has been quilting since the early 1980’s. Though she started out as a hand…
I have been quilting since the revival of the craft in the early 1970’s. My sewing career began at the age of nine with my first project in 4-H — the common…
I know anniversary quilts are not uncommon. But this one, as my Dad tearfully described, “is our whole life.” I made this quilt for my parents’ 50th anniversary in 2002. At the…
The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2011. This video from the American Quilters Society shows how the museum got its start 20 years ago. The museum…
I’ve read that there are about 20,000,000 quilters in the US. In my travels I’ve met a lot of them with some pretty marvelous stories. But, no story touched me like the…