Quilts are inherently a folk form--most quilters learned from their mothers or grandmothers. Yet, when the patterns and color combinations must take their cues from what clothes are too worn to wear, ...

Each square of the Diamond Sampler quilt has a pattern that could be its own full-size quilt. As a sampler, the quilt is filled with dozens of miniature patterns. No block is alike. “Some of them have ...