Feb 1, 2018 Feb 1, 2018 Updated Aug 28, 2018 ...

What do you think of when you see a quilt? A practical object? A work of art? A treasured family heirloom? Quilts, more so than many objects, have managed to bring all of these identities together.

Modern American women may be quilting more out of passion than necessity, but they are doing it in a big way. This household craft, which traveled with early settlers to the U.S. and was developed in ...