Pine Eisfeller cut thousands of tiny fabric pieces to make the quilt she called "The Garden." In the late 1930s, she hand-quilted its elaborate design, appliquéing hundreds of delicate floral motifs ...

LONGMONT, Colo.—The cream-colored quilt covered in colorful lilies was so beloved that the family folded it into a wooden box and buried it in their backyard to spare it from falling into enemy hands.

Brackman (Quilts from the Civil War) and Menaugh, a quilt teacher, present seven new projects inspired by the still astonishing quilts made from the 1920s through the 1940s in Emporia, Kans. The ...

Beth Py-Lieberman - Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections The task of designing, piecing together, appliquéing and then finally quilting an ...