Hand-knitting was at a peak in Britain in the 1940s. During the Second World War, women on the home front were encouraged to contribute to the war effort by knitting for the troops, which was promoted ...

The quilts in the V&A's collection span the domestic and the professionally made, reflecting different uses and associations over the centuries in which they were created and collected. Whether ...

I work a full-time job and spend my after-work time parenting my 2-year-old daughter. I get one hour of free time between her bedtime and my own, and every night, I spend it quilting. I've been ...

The Hello Kitty craze (obsession?) hit us with a bang in the late 1990s, but she was actually created in Japan in 1974. Any of us who had daughters in the late ‘90s or early 2000s is sure to remember ...

Not a frustration or a bug, but more of a nice-to-have. Can we get an option where the background of a transparent image is a checkerboard pattern like that in Gimp? Such thing is a good simple visual ...

I grew up surrounded by quilts. My grandmother has been quilting since the 1950s, and while my experience is far less than hers, it's a hobby I dove head-first into during the throes of the Covid ...

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment for its plan to gather and remove more than 3,000 wild horses from a checkerboarded region of Wyoming that covers around 2 million acres. Those ...

In a small, remote, Black community in Alabama, the Quilters of Gee’s Bend (Claudia Jones Charley, Francesca DeNae Charley, Emma Jean Pettway, Sharon Pettway Williams, and Pleasant Pettway Scott) have ...

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My palazzo pants are among the most worn of all my garments. They are super comfortable and contradictorily trendy as well. As a summer favorite Palazzo is there among the top. Flowing, breezy, ...