ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Seeing floral patterns on quilts is not uncommon. But the quilt garden at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville turns the tables. The garden is designed to mimic the shapes ...

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 ...

The Doan family went from bankruptcy and food stamps to starting the Missouri Star Quilt Co., a YouTube sensation that turned a tiny town into a tourist destination.

Step 9a: Cutting dyed dough into triangle shapes for Quilt Block Sugar Cookies. (Scott Suchman / For The Washington Post) Step 9b: Placing dyed dough onto a baking sheet for Quilt Block Sugar Cookies.

Excerpted from SHOTA AND THE STAR QUILT by Margaret Bateson-Hill, also the author of Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain and Masha and the Firebird. Text copyright c 1998 by Margaret Bateson-Hill.

What happened to quilts? Industrialization rendered their production time inefficient; the heterogenization of the work force left women, the chief producers of the coverings, with little time or ...

The family is rehabbing two more downtown buildings into a retreat, essentially a hotel for out-of-towners who come to the Missouri Star Quilt Co. It will sleep 40 in upstairs bedrooms. Sort of a ...

Step 10: To fill in the corners and complete the block, roll out additional portions of your first or second color, or a combination. (This prevents having the same color next to each other in the ...