The cost of fabric, thread and batting to make a quilt for a double or queen-sized bed starts around $85-$145 but commonly runs $200-$350 or more. Crafting a quilt takes a lot of time, and most experienced quilters prefer to work only with high-quality fabrics.
Get daily news by email. A teenage boy convicted of murdering two young girls has been exonerated - 70 years after he was executed for the crime. George Stinney Jr was just 14 when he was sentenced to death over the killing of two white girls, aged 11 and seven. He became the youngest person in the 20th Century to be executed in the US. But 70 years on a US judge in South Carolina has thrown out the black teenâs conviction on the basis he was wronged by the justice system. The ruling has been welcomed by Stinney Jrâs family and civil rights activists who campaigned for years.
Born on July 6, 1899, in Lowndes County, Alabama, Susannah Mushatt Jones (right) has lived in parts of three centuries, according to Guinness World Records. Jones is the oldest living person at 116. Guinness officially recognized Jones as the oldest recorded person on the planet last month after 116-year-old Jeralean Talley died in suburban Detroit. The oldest living person ever recorded was Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997 at 122. Jones attended the Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama, where Booker T. Washington was an original member of the schoolâs Board of Trustees, according to the New York City Housing Authority.