For Atkins, sewing beads onto quilts “is a great deal more than just embellishment.” A former sculptor, Atkins paints with beads, using the fabric as his canvas; he balances bead with fabric by giving ...

Jane Burch Cochran combines her art training in painting, her love of fabric and the tradition of American quilting. Her quilts are highly embellished with beads, buttons, and paint to enhance the ...

Arched lines of yellow, red, blue and green ribbons are pinned across the cream-colored drapery cloth hanging over the kitchen table. “Do you think they’re too far apart?” the mother asks Susan ...