MARSHALL, Minn. (AP) - On a recent Monday evening, women were carrying sewing machines and other accessories into Fabrics Plus and started setting up on tables in an area that was surrounded by quilts ...

I’ve joined a cult. But instead of proselytizing about the end of the world, we cult members share an artistic interest. We talk colors, threads and patterns. We even have our own language: Fussy cut.

A group of stitchers now meeting in the Charles Page Library is offering beginning lessons in crochet, knit, or quilt. The club has been meeting in the library for a little over a year.

"A quilt, according to the definition used at quilt shows, has three layers. It has a top, it has a back, and it has a batting [or] some kind of an inner layer," Laura Speer says. Like that definition ...

Jessa Tower, owner of Hoop and Bee in Easthampton, talks about the custom quilting space she has opened at Eastworks. CAROL LOLLIS / Staff Photo Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get ...