"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 ...

Basically, I consider myself a traditional quilter. Although I’m trying to break down a wall of my “box” that I’m in. I belong to the Art Quilt Study Group, which was supposed to let me explore quilts ...