Want to read more good news about Alabama? Sign up for the This is Alabama newsletter here. A rustic barn is a picturesque reminder of Alabama’s agricultural roots. Add a “barn quilt” – a hand-painted ...

Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell. C&T Publishing, $29.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-60705-771-0 Aller (Allie Aller’s Crazy Quilting), a Washington state quilter, and Bothell, a Kansas crazy-quilting ...

As a hobby, quilting is often about remembering loved ones. Today almost a million Americans make some kind of quilt, including replica Revolutionary War quilts, and, increasingly Underground Railroad ...

Q While cleaning out an aunt’s estate, we found a box full of fancy embroidered robes and quilts. My great-grandmother taught in China in about 1915 or 1920 so we guessed that these were things she ...

Rosemary Pacha poses for a portrait with her barn quilt called “Iowa Barn and Silo” at her century farm in Brighton on May 7. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Buy Photo If you’ve driven through the Iowa ...

A nine patch is one of the most basic quilting blocks. At it's most basic, it is nine different squares of fabric sewn ...