"The quilt is finally up." Those words might not mean much to most people, but it's been a dream for the Westside Quilters Guild for two years. Friday morning, Dec. 5, under some gloomy clouds, the ...

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 ...

Olivia Nienaber dipped a paintbrush into a can of Sherwin Williams’ Calypso blue last week, wiped off a few excess drips and carefully painted a straight, smooth line onto a white sheet of plywood.

Last year, Sweetums and I were on one of our road trips through rural Alabama when we spotted a See Rock City barn and stopped to take a photo. The barn next to it was picturesque also: It featured a ...

Celebrating National Quilting Day with a gift of Amish quilts Laura Baptiste Untitled (Old Maid's Puzzle). Holmes County, Ohio, circa 1930. This is the first quilt the Brown’s purchased, in 1976, that ...