Cluster of Stars is a quilt from a mother to her daughter, a typical gift for a child leaving home. But its mostly pink color makes it uncommon among these Amish quilts.

Vibrant patterns decorated both floors of the Monroe Convention Center last week during the annual Indiana Heritage Quilt Show. From March 6-8, the convention center bloomed with colorful designs.

There are hundreds of Amish quilt designs, labeled with names as colorful as the latest car models: Country Love, Log Cabin Barn Raising, Double Wedding Ring, Roses and Drapes, Ocean Wave.

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But in the early 1970s, quilts made in Amish communities swelled in popularity among collectors, who drew visual parallels between these objects and the aesthetics of modernist abstraction; as a ...

The first show, “Antique Ohio Amish Quilts From the Darwin D. Bearley Collection,” opens Saturday at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (and continues through March 1).

It's not just quilts at the Art, Craft and Amish Quilt Sale in Jacksonport. Other handcrafted gift and home decor items will be on display and for sale, such as fabric pumpkins for the season ...

Celebrating National Quilting Day with a gift of Amish quilts Laura Baptiste Untitled (Old Maid's Puzzle). Holmes County, Ohio, circa 1930. This is the first quilt the Brown’s purchased, in 1976 ...

A quilt in the "Sunshine and Shadow" pattern - from Mifflin County, Pa., in 1939-40 - is distinctive. Small, colorful squares build into complex diamonds.

All the quilts in the exhibit were made by northern Indiana Amish women between 1880 and 1945, a time when quiltmakers used natural fibers such as wool and cotton and a dynamic color palette ...

Tami Martell is a quilting enthusiast from Milltown Cross, P.E.I., who wants to give some of her creations to people who don't have relatives to give them a family heirloom quilt.