Welcome!

We’re Annika and Eric, and we’re the makers behind Furrow Quilts and Crafts. Furrow came from equal parts passion and necessity, from our shared love of making things and our shared need to pay for preschool. Every single one of our home goods is handmade by one of us, straight from our home in Raleigh, NC.

You’ll notice our primary game is our baby quilts, and we’re darn proud of them. The quilts are all Annika’s doing—she’s been quilting, mostly for babies, since the birth of her first niece back in 2016. Since then she’s gifted dozens of others to friends and families, each one an intersection of creativity and care for little ones on their way into the world. In 2024 that creativity and care grew into a little side hustle that is now Furrow.

Eric, meanwhile, keeps up the website, and occasionally asks Annika to show him how to use the sewing machine one more time.

Why the name?

Allow us (i.e. Eric) to nerd out for a moment. A furrow is a little groove in the ground for planting seeds, and the parallels between farming and quilting are deep. Get down close and tight quilt lines look like plow lines; get up in the sky over farmland and the land itself looks like a patchwork quilt. Plus, agrarian sensibilities are plain in quilting. The first quilts emerged as a thrifty way to use old fabric scraps, though even the earliest quilters couldn’t resist turning it into a creative outlet. We like that sort of down-to-earth origin story.