By night, it transforms into a bunkroom for men rebuilding their lives at Shepherd’s House Men’s Recovery Center. Shepherd’s ...

When Christopher Soria Mendoza was a kid, he moved a lot – going from one household to another while facing the many challenges that accompanied being in the foster care system from the age of 11.

The concept of "checkerboarded land" refers to a pattern of land ownership created in the western United States, particularly in Nevada and Arizona, where alternating sections of land were given to ...

Whether striped, checked or neither, these textiles are sure to enhance any room. By Tom Delavan In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices.

I work a full-time job and spend my after-work time parenting my 2-year-old daughter. I get one hour of free time between her bedtime and my own, and every night, I spend it quilting. I've been ...

For Edith Edmunds, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing on Juneteenth. "It's what I love to do," she told NPR in a phone ...

The Paul Family Quilt (1830-35), on display in "Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories," was made for a four-poster bed. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1812, Catherine Paul moved from Greenwich, ...

"The Ghost" is an eerie painting from 1955 by Arkansas artist Carroll Cloar. It depicts a bed covered in a checkerboard quilt. Standing at the foot of that bed is what appears to be the ghost of a ...

I was born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains, where intricate quilts were carefully displayed at local arts fairs or familiarly folded across a friend’s family couch. I grew up hearing about ...