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...
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....
Megan Fowler is an old soul. She has one foot planted firmly in the appreciation for vintage and antique things and the other pointed forward toward modernism. She sewed Barbie...
A bonus interview with The Quilters, the San Francisco based band recently featured in Issue 27: California Bay Area. Learn how these childhood friends got their music careers started, discovered...
Last year, members of the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, received an invitation to a bourbon tasting inside the museum. It was led by textile artist MJ Kinman, who...
Jen Lopez, sitting in her workspace, surrounded by two of her greatest joys: quilting and comics. In 2019, I was introduced to Jen Lopez’s webcomic By the Yard about an...
We try a lot of new (and sometimes crazy) things at Quiltfolk. It’s part of our nature. If you’ve followed us over the years, you’ve watched us make everything from...
