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...

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....

When I first attended Burning Man in 2019, making a quilt about the experience was the last thing on my mind. Neither loud music nor camping are among the things...

I am a sucker for obscure genres of quilts—especially when I see echoes of those unique styles generations later, blowing on the embers to revive them. So, I’m dying to...

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” – Confucius For my entire adult life, I’ve failed to find a hobby. It’s not...

“It was cold … brutally cold.” I borrowed that line from Undaunted Courage, a book I read as a kid about Lewis and Clark traversing North America. Because that's exactly...

It started innocently enough when I was buying abandoned quilt tops and blocks for the Quiltfolk Foundry...

People who have never tried to photograph a quilt probably think it’s easy. Unlike toddlers and pets, quilts don’t move when you’re trying to take a picture. But they are...

Lily was started ca. 1930-40, and finally finished by the Quiltfolk Foundry late in 2022. “Tell the stories behind the stitches.” This simple goal is the heartbeat of Quiltfolk, the foundation...

The Quiltfolk Foundry quilt Fern was created from one of the first-ever tops I purchased for the project. While that reason alone adds to its significance, there is more: The...