Patty’s Fabric Postcards are unique, quilted works of art that blend traditional quilting techniques with creative expression in a compact, mail-able format. What began as a last-minute teaching opportunity in...
One year after winning Best of Show at QuiltCon 2024, teacher and artist Ginny Robinson reflects on the impact of her powerful protest quilt, What We Will Use as Weapons:...
Debbie Park, alongside her husband Tommy, has transformed their Double D Lazy T Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas, into a vibrant showcase of barn quilts. Inspired by a magazine article, Debbie...
The Hartzell Homestead, Creative Mercantile & Quilt Shop is a countryside log cabin shop in Dover that specializes in creativity—from handcrafted goods to DIY kits, quilting workshops, and much more....
Alice McElwain is the lone certified quilt appraiser in the entire state of Arkansas. She’s an outlier for sure, but her passion to study quilts and determine their value is...
Olivia Trimble’s quilts aren’t made from fabric—they’re painted, blanketing buildings and public spaces in her native Fayetteville, as well as in other cities in Northwest Arkansas. A sign painter and...
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...
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...
Artist Rachel B. Hayes has been commissioned to make sculptural textile installations by many types of organizations. She has created works for Missoni, the Italian fashion firm, and has a...
Mildred Choate Taylor lives in the home her great-grandparents built on land near the Dwight Mission in Marble City. The home was built using the couple’s Cherokee “strip money,” which...
Quilter Kelley Atkinson and quilt historian Anita Weinraub were both profiled in Quiltfolk, Issue 30: Georgia, but their paths had never crossed until Kelley noticed a label on a vintage...
Michelle Collins wants you to know that you can definitely quilt. In fact, she thinks it’d be pretty cool if you did. The avid quilter and mom of three originally started...
Quilters have their favorite genres and makers. Maybe you’d drive a long way to see an exhibition of Baltimore Album quilts or quilts made by the women of Gee’s Bend....
Noticing her interest in junior high school home economics and sewing classes, Gay Bitter's dad bought her a white Singer Featherweight sewing machine, which she used on and off through...
In 1996, when the youngest of her two sons started school full time, Jan Crane contemplated what she wanted to do. Ultimately, she admitted that she wanted to open a...
