And that’s how I met Oprah. So I sold my first quilt that was gifted to Oprah. So how did your art quilts turn into/inspire this new line?

The needle became my pen and the thread became my ink. The quilt on the cover of the book is my very first quilt. And on another level, quilting is a metaphor.

“I made my first quilt at the age of 17 for my sister’s baby and my godchild,” said Laura Comiskey Broders, part of the Stitchy Fingers guild in New Orleans, and this year’s president of ...

My first quilt fell apart, but I loved quilting and was intrigued by it.” Coffey continued quilting but didn’t think her treasured hobby would ever become her livelihood.

“I made my first quilt when I was 17,” Benzel said. “My grandmother changed her formal dining room into a quilt studio. You’d walk in, and there would be just piles of fabric.

I remember after completing my first quilt, I said to her I wanted to learn to applique and she just looked at me and said OK. We got what I needed to learn to hand applique and away I went.

This is my first quilt show. "Good," says Paula Chipman, president of Northwest Quilters. "Now we can indoctrinate you." ...

I made my first quilt, Tree of Death, in 1997, which was about AIDS. Now I have access to digital tapestry technology, and as I still get the same thrill out of making a tapestry I'm more likely ...

I looked into the half-forgotten box I'd pulled from a dusty shelf. In it lay various sizes of baby clothes I'd saved throughout the first years of my 4-year-old son's little life. I was going to ...