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 ...

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 ...

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 ideas blossomed as Joanne Clarke sat stuck inside at her son’s Mount Hope home during a Thanksgiving weekend ice storm. They discussed ways to solve some of the world’s problems and how to build a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...