At a time when the quilting world seems full of art-driven works and high-tech techniques, it was a traditional alphabet quilt inspired by a 150-year-old children's book that took the best of show at ...

Each square of the Diamond Sampler quilt has a pattern that could be its own full-size quilt. As a sampler, the quilt is filled with dozens of miniature patterns. No block is alike. “Some of them have ...

Laurie Hird, author of "The Farmer's Wife Pony Club Sampler Quilt" is Nancy's guest. Laurie Hird, author of "The Farmer's Wife Pony Club Sampler Quilt" is collector of "The Farmer's Wife" magazines, ...

Nancy shows how to arrange simple half-square triangles into beautiful row-by-row designs. Nancy explains how to arrange simple half-square triangles into beautiful row-by-row designs. Learn how to ...

As informative as it is intimate, the latest book from quilting teacher Thomas (Quilting Essentials) focuses on the quilt she made her husband for their 40th wedding anniversary. “We quilters have our ...

As founder and executive director of People’s Place Quilt Museum, a center for Amish and Mennonite culture in Lancaster County, Phyllis Pellman Good had studied Amish and Mennonite quilt-making for ...

The word ”sampler” is from the Latin exemplar, meaning ”pattern,” and that`s exactly what the early samplers were. Stitched on long, narrow pieces of cloth, samplers were records of random stitches in ...