A favorite image of pioneer days is groups of women gathered for a quilting bee. Quilting, which called for scraps of cloth to be sewn onto cotton batting, was a group project if there ever was one, ...

What do you do? “I make T-shirt, memory, baby, Christmas, any type of quilt for any occasion,” Tracy Husch-Lissak said. What is quilting? “It’s three layers of fabric. The backing, the batting and the ...

An old-fashioned quilting bee: wooden frame fills the parlor, neighbors at their needles, better quilters stay late to redo poor quilters’ “toenail-catchers.” A modern bee: quilters connect only by ...

Hillary Griffin, center, learns to sew a standard quilt block called "orange peels" from Valerie Luberecki during a meeting of the Modern Quilt Guild in Raleigh. Liz Condo newsobserver.com Since the ...