The first thing one notices upon entering Joan Dawson’s Mays Pond home is the number of quilts hanging on the walls.

Finished last year, her gemstone quilt is a 6.75-carat diamond, blown up to become 10 feet of fabric facets. It took more than a year to draft and draw the pattern, transfer it to paper, pick ...

Crazy Quilting Dazzling Diamonds: 27 Embroidered & Embellished Blocks, 56 Full-Size Seam Designs Kathy Seaman Shaw. . C&T, $27.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-61745-901-6 ...