Hillary Griffin, center, learns to sew a standard quilt block called "orange peels" from Valerie Luberecki during a meeting of the Modern Quilt Guild in Raleigh. Liz Condo newsobserver.com Since the ...

A quilting revival is afoot. This isn't news to the 500 members of the Austin-Area Quilt Guild, who are putting on their biennial Capital of Texas QuiltFest this weekend. Nor to the 1,000 quilt fans ...