Gwen Johnson’s latest quilt starts with an eight-point star in brown, slate blue and a neutral pastel. Triangles come next and to finish, she surrounds the block with a frame of blue and brown.

In this richly illustrated guidebook, Hughes, a self-taught fabric artist, shows how to decorate ready-printed swaths of fabric with custom-made embellishment. As she points out, by adding quilting to ...

Phyllis DeWys wasn’t expecting to get as inspired as she did while accompanying her husband on a pheasant hunt. “I go out in the field,” she said. “I don’t carry a gun. I don’t find any pleasure in it ...