Calling all quilters! Margaret’s Hope Chest, a Grand Rapids-based quilt charity, needs your help to make 400 quilts to give homeless children living in shelters over the Christmas holiday. Today my art & craft column is about Carin Vogelzang, and her mother, Carol Peters, the women who turned a family tragedy into an inspiring cause. [...]

It seems I’m always on some kind of deadline. Today I’m on a column deadline and a self-imposed art quilt deadline. While it seems ridiculous to suggest I have to finish a small quilt this month in the midst of everything else, that’s exactly what I’m doing. I spent the evening working on my quilt [...]

A beautiful thing happened last Tuesday night when more than two dozen women gathered before a pile of donated fabric for the first meeting of a new community quilt bee. As you may recall, I accepted the fabric on behalf of the Craft Club I organize at the YMCA in Grand Rapids. The donor was [...]