A friendship quilt is like a well-autographed yearbook that keeps you warm. To add something personal, a quiltmaker sends fabric swatches to friends to sign and then sews the patches into the quilt’s ...

On a recent Sunday morning a former pastor's daughter, home on a visit from California, brought an old friendship quilt to our church in Greasy Valley (I know, strange name but that is a story within ...

"Since the 1800s, Americans have used quilts to tell stories about their lives and histories and to share time spent together working toward a common goal," said Anne Campbell, lifestyle activity ...

Quilting a Memory: Friendship and Commemorative Quilts September 17 - November 19, 2011 Come celebrate the creative spirit of generations of area quilters with a memorable exhibition. Quilting a ...

Lisa Edmondson remembers looking at the embroidered signatures on feedsack-cloth blocks with her grandmother Louise Adams. After seeing the Thursday News Tribune story, "Decades-old blocks of ...

The Johnson County Museum's Common Threads exhibition is a way into the area's history, but also connects women across time and space. Quilting is a pastime of paradoxes. It’s at once considered an ...

Everyone in the room wore white linen gloves lest the oils from their hands change history. In the world of centuries old hand made quilts small things make a big difference. Purple fades to brown ...

To honor the Douglas County Historical Society’s 75th anniversary, the Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass., will be hosting quilt shows throughout 2008. The first exhibition highlights ...

St. John's Episcopal Church in Minneapolis is a congregation where social activism and cultural bridging aren't just ideas --they're imperatives. It's a church that builds Habitat for Humanity homes ...

How do you remember your family and friends? In 1845, Hagerstown resident Ellen Cecelia (Carver) Mobley began a friendship quilt to remember her loved ones. Before her death in 1899, Ellen had ...

Quilts are everywhere at the Rogers Historical Museum this summer. There's an exhibit titled "Ozark Quilts: Stitches in Time," open through March 28, 2026, that helps celebrate the museum's 50th ...