Over several weeks, she made a small quilt, three squares by two squares, with a design similar to a kite block pattern. For the pillow, she selected a dimensional bow tie block pattern.

Last year we did a column on kitsch crafts, and one of the featured projects was an apron made of men’s ties. We presented the apron to a friend on her birthday, and she advised us during the holiday ...

Newly retired, Dad waited by the front door to take my mom grocery shopping. “Tom, you can’t wear that,” Mom exclaimed. “Why? Don’t I match?” he asked. A fair question, since Dad was notoriously color ...

Areawide. Ties are a traditional Father’s Day gift, but what to do with the ones you no longer want? Prairie Moon Quilts’ Necktie Social Project is accepting donations of neckties for use in quilts ...

PORTERS NECK – As Pat Mazur boxed up her late husband’s clothes to donate to charity earlier this year, she found one thing she couldn’t bear to give away – or rather 65 of them. John, who passed away ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville artist is seeing his dream come true and becoming a part of history. A quilt stitched by 81-year-old "Sunshine" Joe Mallard has been accepted into the collection of the ...

You have a chance to win this triple Irish chain pattern quilt called Celtic Rose at the Northwest Quilters 40th Annual Show. (Janet Eastman) More than 200 quilts of all patterns, shapes and sizes ...

“Sunshine” Joe Mallard’s hand-stitched quilts are a mix of patterns, colors, words and neck ties. “My quilts chronicle history that happens over a long period of time, while it is happening,” Mallard ...

The size of the quilt can be adjusted to your needs, Dolly says, by adding or taking away rows of T-shirts. Larger quilts for a bed will just require more rows of T-shirts. By laying out your work ...

Several handmade quilts were spread atop white folding tables at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, each waiting to be examined. Two women wearing cotton gloves hovered over them, ...