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 ...
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 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 ...
Today we’re introducing the final block of The Star’s 2014 quilt project, “Where Poppies Grow … Remembering Almo,” including instructions on how to finish your quilt. The quilt honors those who served ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...