The fragments of our lives and make, Out of life's remnants, as they fall, A thing of beauty, after all. — Douglas Malloch, “The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America.” St. Cloud quilter Margaret ...

A Victorian-era quilt is already chockablock with many different rich fabrics. Look closer and see more layers of decoration. There are embroidered booties, birds, flowers, anchors, bucks and a spider ...

Jean Bray of Cave Spring, Ga., recently created a crazy quilt devoted to the very notion of insanity. She emblazoned her machine-stitched composition titled "One Square Short of a Quilt" with phrases ...

When Wilma Grasman was a child, her grandmother sewed her a flannel-backed crazy quilt made of recycled suit coats and other rough fabrics. And she hated it. “That’s when I decided that I didn’t like ...

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 ...

Experts say your old quilts could actually be worth a lot of money. Here's what to look for.

In today’s collection, a beautiful handmade quilt with a lovely, all-American back story leads the group in interest and value, followed closely by a sleek Arts and Crafts style chandelier that evokes ...