What VanOverschelde uncovered led to a reunion of sorts Wednesday afternoon, as members of the family of Nina Rust, who was ...

Therese Stempin has never been very far away from a sewing machine. Her mother bought her a Necchi machine when she was in the third grade. Stempin still has the machine, in almost pristine condition ...

Hand-sewn and quilted examples can be compared and contrasted to machine-sewn quilts as the availability of home sewing machines expanded. Other quilt examples utilized commercial patterns or were ...

“I didn’t even know back then what a quilt is,” said Nera. Nera said she picked up sewing before the birth of her first child. Thanks to a friend taking her to a quilt show, she bought a machine and ...

The technique is a meticulous hand sewing process that adds lengthy stretches of thin, contrasting thread to the surface of clothing, creating various kinds of patterns in the process. It was used ...

It was hand done ... to some dedicated research and the sewing skills of the James Valley Community Center quilting ladies, the names labeled on the quilt are no longer a mystery to be solved ...