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 ...

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 ...

Members of the Prairie Quilt Guild of Wichita’s quilted this year’s “Opportunity Quilt.” Raffle tickets for the quilt will be sold for $1 each or six for $5 at the 2022 Common Threads Quilt Show June ...

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 ...

The Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival today announced the third annual Biennial Quilt Festival taking place Wednesday, June 12 - Saturday, June 15 at the Overland Park Convention Center. The ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Things are once again developing near Kansas Speedway in western Wyandotte County. Recently announced is the Kansas City Quilt Museum that will be located northeast of N. 94th ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

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 ...

That love still binds the Heart of Kansas quilters together - though their stitching varies. Donna Zimmerman has been quilting by hand since she was 15, while Marceline Masterson has been using a ...

The 10th annual Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival kicks off in Overland Park Thursday, offering attendees free classes, quilt exhibits and more throughout the weekend. Located in the Overland Park ...