I don’t know why, but I’ve always been totally intimidated by quilters. I mean, I’m a mad sewer and seamstress extraordinaire if I do say so myself, but there is something about the little intricacies ...

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 ...

Boehlert appliqued each student's eight-inch square block on to the 36-inch quilt fabric and then assembled the quilts. The lap quilts will be given to seniors at Mill-Pond, in Ankeny, in May. The ...