He’s an asshole,” Harvey Fierstein says as he approaches his Gammill long-arm quilting machine, which dominates his Connecticut art studio. The industrial-size device includes a computer interface for ...

Suzanne Bednarchik has known she wanted to start a sewing shop since 1990. “A friend made this beautiful quilt,” she says, “and I was hooked.” Now, her store, The Quilting Bee, has served Lakewood ...

She also noted that the advent of rotary cutters and long-arm quilting machines have resulted in quickly produced “zippity doo dah” quilts, and people having about 40 quilts stacked up in their closet ...