Take a step back into the old days and try quilting with scraps of fabric. Quilts made of clothing scraps are a great way to reduce landfill overload, revive an old-fashioned skill and save money. My ...

If you’re a quilter, there is some built-in bug in us that prevents us from throwing out scraps. When you first start quilting, it’s not much of a problem. We tell ourselves that we’re going to use ...

Three pairs of hands made my quilt: my grandmother's, my mother's and my own. The fabrics and the stitches connect us, but so do other, intangible threads -- even though I saw my grandmother only ...

Click to open image viewer. A quilted bedcover made with printed and woven scrap fabrics by Elizabeth Salter Smith. The individual scraps are a variety of geometric shapes including squares, ...