Florence Peto lived in Bergen County from 1940 until the end of her life in 1970. She was born Florence Cowdin in Brooklyn in 1881. In ...

This is the story, or rather the seeds of a story, of two quilts. This sunburst quilt is owned by the Meadowlands Museum, Rutherford, Ber...

Although the Schoolhouse block pattern has been around since the late 19th century, it took 72 years since the Ridgewood Historical Socie...

The Warwick (NY) Historical Society had a two-day quilt show in the historic Old School Baptist Church on the old green in Warwick. They ...

This quilt with its circular stars is from the private Dater family collection. Jaws dropped all around when we hung this at the photo sh...

Euphemia Townsend Smyser may have said, "Who will notice when it's on the bed?" when she laid out her grandmother's flower garden quilt. ...

In the nineteenth century bonnets were worn by American women for warmth and protection from the sun and dust. They were made of soft mat...

We have started taking photographs for the exhibit catalog. After months of virtual meetings it is nice to see each other, even with mas...

I am grateful to my babysitter for my love of needlework. Mrs. Parker, 20 years older than my mother, was babysitter for my sister and me...

Quilt historian Barbara Brackman has written four articles on the chintz fabric used in the Hinsdale Tree of Life Quilt from the Mahwah M...

Peggy W. Norris You may wonder what quilts and stockings could possibly have to do with each other. The stockings helped to establish pr...

Kay Yeomans How did Henrietta Haring’s coverlet find its way to the Hopper family? It took us a while to find the right direction, althou...

Kay Yeomans, Upper Saddle River Historical Society One of the most meaningful donations to Upper Saddle River’s Hopper-Goetschius House M...

Diane Mateo, the newest member of our team, shares about her family quilts. What I love most about quilts, embroidery, and other needlewo...

Let me start my story by making a confession: I am not a quilter! Sadly, my needle skills are limited to being able to sew on a button, a...

I (Marion) come from a long line of women who made their living as seamstresses. Not from my mother but from her sisters, her mother, her...

Growing up I snuggled under handmade quilts without recognizing what they represented: the labor, the creativity and the history. Neither...

The Bergen County Quilt and Coverlet Show Committee members have decided to widen the scope of the blog to include our musings on local h...

The Bergen County Quilt and Coverlet Show will now be June 11 and 12 of 2021. Given the current pandemic, we would not have had time to ...

Rockland County, New York, is right next door to Bergen County, New Jersey, and many extended families lived on both sides of the border....