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 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 ...

Lecompton? A large quilt that tells the story of the former Kansas territorial capital of Lecompton is hanging at a museum in the northeast Kansas town. The 27-panel creation was designed by Shirley ...

On Saturday, Jan. 31, the Lumberyard Arts Center in downtown Baldwin City, Kan. hosted an event to celebrate Kansas quilting.

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 ...

The kids always knew Mom was kind of a ham. She was a hoot around the house when they were growing up, but come on — they set her up in a business so she could sew a few quilts to the good people of ...

The Johnson County Museum's Common Threads exhibition is a way into the area's history, but also connects women across time and space. Quilting is a pastime of paradoxes. It’s at once considered an ...

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 ...

Renowned quilter and textile artist Marla Jackson stands with her quilt “First Born,” part of the “One History, Two Versions” exhibit currently on display in the Spencer Museum of Art. The hand- and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Janette Sheldon’s colorful quilt, covering Lu Zengkang’s Michael Jackson sculpture at the Overland Park Arboretum, is a paper-pieced quilt created from a New York Beauty pattern. Sheldon will display ...

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 ...