On Sept. 19, 1928, the Kansas City Star newspaper in Missouri ran their first quilt pattern called “Pine Tree.” Publishing quilt patterns in the Kansas City Star newspaper was the brain child of Ruby ...

The Heart of Kansas Quilt Guild will meet on Monday, July 26, 2021, at the Delos V. Smith Senior Center, 101 West 1st Ave., Hutchinson, Kansas, for their monthly meeting. Coffee and fellowship will ...

It’s a new year and a new Kansas City Star quilt. Welcome to the first installment of “Hazel’s Diary,” which introduces not only the quilt — a 1950s look, with appliquéd wildflowers over pieced blocks ...

Welcome to the second installment of our “Hazel’s Diary” project, a 1950s-style quilt with appliquéd wildflowers over pieced blocks. This year’s quilt is inspired by real diary entries written by a ...

Made for the Kansas Quilt Symposium held at the University of Kansas, July 20-22, 1978. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source ...

Behind-the-scenes work often goes unrecognized. So it’s little wonder that the fiery tactics of abolitionist John Brown, the military recruiting efforts of James Lane and the freedom cries of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Things are once again ...

The now-famous Kansas Troubles quilt block immortalizes the bad times prior to the Civil War. Yet it‘s meant nothing but good times for a native of the Sunflower State, Lynne Hagmeier. When she was a ...

Lately, Nancy Rolland’s been having flashbacks: It’s an arid Oklahoma afternoon. From left, Kepsey Fixico and Faye Baker, both of the Muskogee Creek Nation, and Marilyn Thunder Hawk, of the Sicangu ...

A barn quilt made by Sandy Heyman of Burns shows the gridwork that is the backdrop to making one. Annie Calovich The Wichita Eagle Barn quilts have become a colorful addition to rural USA, crowning ...