Avid quilters across Georgia and the southeast will gather in Cobb County in June for the state’s largest quilt show. Hosted by the East Cobb Quilters Guild, the Georgia Celebrates Quilts 2024 show ...
CARROLLTON — When it booked the touring exhibition “Sacred Threads” a year ago, the Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum had no idea it would be featuring it during a pandemic. Yet, somehow it fits ...
Introduction / by Anita Zaleski Weinraub -- A background for quilting in Georgia / by Darlene R. Roth -- Early quilts / by Irene McLaren -- Tattered veterans and genteel beauties: survivors of the war ...
CARROLLTON, Ga. – When the Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum opened this fall in a modest 20- by 24-foot room in downtown Carrollton, the location was not nearly as big as the dreams of the ...
This is everything a good quilt should be. There’s a certain kind of quilt that earns a permanent spot at the foot of the bed—one you reach for on chilly mornings, drape over the couch during a Sunday ...
Click to open image viewer. A lightweight quilt with an eight pointed star design handmade by an enslaved person near Macon, Georgia. Each block is composed of a center square of colored fabric ...
Quilting and friendship go hand in hand — so much so that Georgia Bonesteel, the nationally renowned godmother of lap quilting, still stitches with the Cover Lovers, a group that evolved from one of ...
For some people, old clothes can hold powerful memories. A metro Atlanta quilt maker is turning those memories into something families can keep forever. Remetta Wiggins, who lives in Snellville, found ...
The famed local quilter Georgia Bonesteel aired her last television show for PBS nine years ago, but in mid-December she went viral as The Quilt Show.com released a four-part series called "TQS ...