quilts

Karla's quilt Mooshka tells her stories about the pieces of fabric that Mooshka is made from, but when Karla's baby sister is born, Mooshka falls silent until Karla overcomes her jealousy and shares Mooshka with the baby.

As her family travels by wagon train to Oregon, a young girl gathers scraps of cloth so that she can make a quilt. Includes historical note.

Shows how the patterns and pattern names in patchwork reflect life on the frontier in the nineteenth century.

Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change her warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.

Recounts the experiences of women settling in the mining and farming communities of the Colorado Territory, focusing on how the women used quilts to record the experiences of their journey.

A collection of writings which pay tribute to quilts and quilting memories from different eras and authors.

Poems about the four seasons, as reflected in the natural world, are accompanied by photographs of quilts made by the author.

Three children remake their grandpa's quilt so it will fit him better.

When Elvirey and her family move to a log cabin in the Michigan woods, something even more important than Granny's quilt pieces makes the new dwelling a home.

While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.