Underwood said her interest in Civil War quilts began when she took up quilting lessons in 2002, just before she retired. After inquiring about Civil War patterns, she researched the topic and was ...

Civil War tales inspire quilting reproductions. ... Shirley Kimmel, left, of Shiremanstown and instructor Roz Graeff, right, of New Cumberland pick out fabric to make a replica Civil War quilt.

Becky Wright couldn’t have known when she bought an old, mostly brown muslin quilt at an estate sale 34 years ago that it would become so much a part of Quilt tells story of life during the ...

DECATUR – Sewn with love by women on the home front as the fabric of the nation was torn by Civil War, an 1860s “soldier quilt” made to comfort the men of the Union Army would be a rare and ...

Civil War quilts is the focus of quilt guild's upcoming juried show ... so named because the entire quilt was made from 2,000 slivers of fabric; a Christmas quilt embellished with pearls as ...

A quilt dating back to the 1860s has been uncovered in a library in the small Texas town of Alto. The valuable Civil War artifact was first spotted four years ago but it has taken until now for ...

JESSAMINE CO., Ky. (LEX 18) — The fabric of our country's history is in the spotlight this weekend during a quilt show in Jessamine County. Members of the Jessamine Piece Quilters created the ...

With the Civil War growing closer to home and rumors of soldiers burning homesteads, Thornton and Christina Myers took the family’s most prized possessions -- silverware and Christina’s ...

Cherry quilts, given then name because of the stemmed cherries appliqued in the design, became popular in the mid-1800s, when the newest fabric color -- “turkey red” -- first hit the market.

BERTRAND — The Civil War-era quilt top rested at the bottom of an antique, metal clothes hamper for 14 years before Rita Skiles discovered it. Old Civil War-era quilt leads to a trail of discoveries ...

Becky Wright couldn’t have known when she bought an old, mostly brown muslin quilt at an estate sale 34 years ago that it would become so much a part of ...