Family heirlooms are the theme for this month’s column, including a fine example of an American “crazy quilt,” a porcelain night light, an Early American pattern glass carafe, an aeronautical school ...

The fragments of our lives and make, Out of life's remnants, as they fall, A thing of beauty, after all. — Douglas Malloch, “The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America.” St. Cloud quilter Margaret ...

If you look closely, you can see the unfolding story of a well-to-do St. Paul, Minn., family stitched into the pieces of an elaborate Victorian crazy quilt, which dates to the 1890s. It tells of the ...

Q While cleaning out an aunt’s estate, we found a box full of fancy embroidered robes and quilts. My great-grandmother taught in China in about 1915 or 1920 so we guessed that these were things she ...