Frieda Anderson Frieda Anderson creates contemporary art quilts and one-of-a-kind wearables. Her specialties include fusing, creative machine quilting, and designing elegant and original garments.

A genealogical task force is stitching together pieces of history, as they study works at the International Quilt Museum.

But uptown, a hop, skip, and jump across the street from Lincoln Center, the American Folk Art Museum is serving up a colorful tonic, in the form of a new exhibition of visually striking quilts.

The show filled several rooms and the main hallway at Dana Gray Middle School and had 191 entries from 44 quilters.