I love it when knit pumpkin patterns include instructions for multiple sizes, so you can stack them to your heart’s content. These pumpkins range in size from 6 to 10 inches.

It’s important to note that many of these “quilt” jackets that are sold today aren’t actually made the way a real quilt is. Traditional quilts take hundreds of hours to make, are pieced together with ...

The Gee’s Bend quilters don’t use patterns. “My mama taught me how to quilt with a nine-patch pattern,” Pettway said. But today, “the designs come out of my head.