Josie Valdez was a reluctant quilter, until she discovered how to use her craft to help others. Now, she donates quilts to hospitals, young mothers, and veterans while also maintaining a small longarm services business.
Vicki Conley: Stitching Stories of Nature and Conservation
Vicki Conley’s artistry celebrates the natural world, transitioning from the functional beauty of pottery to the boundless creativity of art quilting. Known for her vibrant national parks poster quilts, she...
Josie Valdez was a reluctant quilter, until she discovered how to use her craft to help others. Now, she donates quilts to hospitals, young mothers, and veterans while also maintaining...
Barbara “Bobbi” Lucero is on a journey to incorporate her Native American heritage into her work. The owner of Edge Water Quilting, in Albuquerque, and a paralegal by day, she...
About 60 miles from Spokane, in eastern Washington’s high desert country, Mariner’s Compass quilts surround Robin Long. On her family's cattle ranch near Ritzville, she and her husband, David Long,...
"This was a time when people were slowly making their way into the modern quilting world in order to find something that made them happy and kept their hands busy,”...
Brenetta Ward began quilting as a child, when she attended quilting bees with her Aunt Alma in rural Illinois. Her quilting style is grounded in southern tradition, but incorporates cultural...
“Then crazy quilting hit me like a Mack truck,” Allie remembered. She was given four industrial sized trash bags full of slightly smokey smelling fabric samples after a fire in...
When I watched the advanced trailer for our October Adventure Workshop in Ireland, my eyes started to well up halfway through. The film wasn’t finished. It wasn't color-corrected. There wasn’t...
Little did we know that, as part of the Throughlines exhibit, we would see Green Star Quilt (2019), a modern sculpture that represents the fabric squares of a traditional Star...
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