Some quilts are made in a season. Others take a lifetime, and a few take more than one. This issue celebrates quilting in all its warmth, history, and heart, with stories and projects for every kind of maker.

Traveling through quilting’s past and present, you will:

• Discover 3 techniques that bring heirloom-style dimension to your quilting.

• Learn how Canadian children joined the quilting effort during World War II.

• Follow one quilt from a grandmother’s first stitches to her granddaughter’s finishing touches.

• Step inside the world of textile preservation, where archivists are digitizing quilt records for future generations.

• Master the precision of English paper piecing.

• Knit a cozy quilt-inspired throw.

Whether you piece, appliqué, knit, or simply love the stories behind the stitches, this issue has something to warm your heart and inspire your hands.

Contents

• Grandmother’s Flower Garden: An Unfinished Quilt by Susan Strawn

• Quilting as to War: Canadian Women on the Home Front by Joanna Dermenjian

• Mrs. Lane’s Petticoat: A Quilt’s Journey from Colonial New Jersey to a Small Minnesota Museum by Kim R. L. Baird

• Uncovering Quilts at the Plymouth Antiquarian Society: MassQuilts Volunteers Document Centuries of Handiwork by Katy Williams-O’Donnell

• Many Stories Pieced into One: Martha Washington’s Quilt Top by Susan Holloway Scott

• Unraveling the Intarsia Legacy: History Stitched into Rare War Quilts by Ansie van der Walt

• Pieced Together: The Hidden Narratives of America’s Centennial Quilts by K. M. Royal

• Quilts and the Making of Winterthur by Matthew Monk

Projects:

• Mary Alice Throw: A Modular Knit Children’s Blanket by Anna Daku

• Rita’s “Crazy Patch” Quilt Block to Stitch by Joanna Dermenjian

• Stitching in Relief: Exploring Boutis, Trapunto, and Raised Appliqué by Rebecca Kemp Brent

• Smoky Mountain Stars: An English Paper-Pieced Table Runner by Jenny Hubbard

Magazine published in October 2026 by Long Thread Media LLC

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