I love sewing and I am busy making a hand sewn patchwork quilt using hundreds of different Liberty designs. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get unlimited access to the ...

Throughout my life I've enjoyed sewing, embroidery, applique, painting, making the world's first (and only?) giant inflatable Boggle set – but for my first three decades I shunned patchwork. I thought ...

When knitting became the Thing To Do a couple of years ago, part of its appeal was its portability: you could do it on the bus or in a pub with your mates, then put it in your handbag at the end of ...

TODAY we begin a new series of articles by guest contributor Sally Stevens, a patchwork and quilting writer and teacher with years of experience in the skill. Here, she explains the background to her ...

Kaye-Maree Hinton's husband Garry was in end-of-life care with a rare type of brain cancer, when a nurse laid a bright, handmade quilt over his hospital bed. Ms Hinton, 62, says the simple act of ...

In 1992, in Esher Library southwest of London, England, Josephine Andrews and her mother, Christine, collected blankets to donate to Kurdish refugees of the Gulf War. Among the pile of donations, the ...