The new MOCA Los Angeles exhibition, With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, is a maximalist delight to behold. Replete with feathers, glitter, embroidery, quilts, wallpaper, ...

Last year, Sweetums and I were on one of our road trips through rural Alabama when we spotted a See Rock City barn and stopped to take a photo. The barn next to it was picturesque also: It featured a ...

JACKSON, MI -- It has become increasingly common to see barn quilts displayed prominently on old barns, in gardens or on the sides of houses when driving through Michigan. The multi-patterned wooden ...

Starting in the 1970s, design professionals deemed the simple patterns and strong colors of antique Amish quilts thoroughly “modern,” and those quilts frequently were showcased in homes right through ...

YOU wouldn't exactly call it the Great Quilts War, but there is a controversy raging in the quilting world. On one side, there's the contemporary art quilt movement, which has gained momentum in the ...

Much of modern farmhouse style — the shiplap, natural materials and distressed finishes popularized by magazines and shows such as HGTV's “Fixer Upper” — evokes a simpler time in a vague, nostalgic ...

Just three years after opening her Boca Raton quilting shop, Johanna Felberbaum is a featured Top Shop in Better Homes and Gardens Quilt Sampler magazine and scored the cover design. StitchCraft, at ...

What: Julian Woman’s Club is sponsoring two lectures by Burns, “Down on the Farm.” Some of Burns’ quilts will be on display and her books will be available for sale. When: 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. today in ...

Elsie Bennett knew the feed business wasn’t going to sustain her 100-plus-year-old general store. Looking for a way to rejuvenate the Bear Poplar shop, Elsie Bennett found an answer in art. When ...

The barn quilt movement began in 2001 in Adams County, Ohio, when a woman named Donna Sue Groves painted a version of her mother’s quilt on their barn as a tribute. The idea quickly spread among the ...