The basket of ancient fabric scraps sat tucked away beside the box of quilt patterns torn decades ago from the pages of a newspaper. I do make quilts, so I politely accepted both from non-quilters who ...

They’re cozy, collectible, and can fetch a pretty penny.

Don Harris, Hendersonville, NC resident and first-time author, tells the story of an Appalachian Mountain family, their survival of the Historic Flood of 1916 and what life was like at that time in ...

You acquire a beat-up quilt at an estate sale for $5. You later learn that the names inscribed on the fabric are those of Civil War soldiers, and that the quilt itself was made during the 1890s.

For almost 80 years the pretty quilt, hand-stitched from scraps of old farm clothes and backed with fabric from flour sacks bought at a local mill, had been forgotten at the bottom of a family trunk.

A pile of old windows has been standing in the corner of my garage for quite some time, beckoning me to transform them into something other than a dirty resting place for old rugs and moving blankets.