quilt shops

Terry Skrabanek says she’s tried every craft in the book, but it wasn’t until the mid-1980s, when she was into English smocking and her sons said “We’re not wearing that stuff,” that she learned to quilt. It wasn’t long after that she also learned to longarm and started “quilting for the public” as...

It’s just a guess, but if you were a student in Maetha Elliott’s elementary school classroom, you’ve probably never forgotten her. This guess is based on the fact that this past year Maetha dressed as a singing Christmas Tree and Mary Poppins. And if you visit her shop, Tiny Stitches in Marietta,...

From the outside, Quilt Market looks like one big candy store—all those gorgeous new fabrics, all those fascinating books and notions. What gets lost sometimes is Quilt Market's reason for being—to help quilt store owners do one-stop shopping, so they can share all that quilty goodness with their...

A bird's eye view from the front door of Quilt Haus. “Predictable” and “easy” are two words that aren’t in Deanne Moore’s vocabulary. She attributes her nontraditional outlook on life to being a middle child, and its influence can be seen from her first quilt to the way customers can expect the...