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 ...

Carrie Minkel-Johnson (left) folds a large handmade star quilt with her mother, Ruby Leith Minkel, in the quilting studio at the Lower Sioux Indian Community on May 29.

A NASA astronaut, Nyberg wasn't in space looking out the windows onboard the International Space Station, nor was she outside looking up at the Houston night sky. In fact, at that moment, Nyberg was ...

Photo provided A detail photograph of a Dresden Blooms quilt. A Gathering of Quilts, Columbus Star Quilters and Evening Star Quilters’ biennial quilt show, certainly lives up to its name. This year, ...

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 ...

Almira Buffalo Bone Jackson (in 1994) once said that she would "dream the colors [of quilts] at night." Michael Crummett American Indians have long been recognized for their superb artistry and ...