I work a full-time job and spend my after-work time parenting my 2-year-old daughter. I get one hour of free time between her bedtime and my own, and every night, I spend it quilting. I've been ...

I grew up surrounded by quilts. My grandmother has been quilting since the 1950s, and while my experience is far less than hers, it's a hobby I dove head-first into during the throes of the Covid ...

Spend enough time driving and you’ll start to question the roadside fixtures you take for granted. After figuring out the purpose behind the brightly colored balls on power lines and the metal stars ...

Grand Prairie Quilt Society members shared several projects at the group’s July meeting including baby quilts. (Submitted photo) The Grand Prairie Quilt Society met Wednesday, July 14, in the ...

The Grand Prairie Quilt Society held its Sit 'n Sew with nine members present July 14 in the fellowship hall of First Christian Church at Stuttgart. The leader of the quilt society opened the meeting ...

Jenny Doan is nibbling on a plate of andouille pumpkin penne at Blue Sage, a restaurant with soft lighting and black cloth napkins. Once a bankrupt California housewife, she’s lunching with four of ...

Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. Many celebrations tie into a thread of Mississippi’s ...

Lisa Edmondson remembers looking at the embroidered signatures on feedsack-cloth blocks with her grandmother Louise Adams. After seeing the Thursday News Tribune story, "Decades-old blocks of ...

Many people enjoy researching their family history, but often leave stragglers off their story for one reason or another. Linda Judd, of Temple, Texas, didn’t pursue the history of her ...

A friendship quilt is like a well-autographed yearbook that keeps you warm. To add something personal, a quiltmaker sends fabric swatches to friends to sign and then sews the patches into the quilt’s ...

Verna Gingerich, Esther Yoder, Dorothy Bender Yoder and Edna Blough Miller recently sat in front of the friendship quilt for which they made squares while they were working in the 1940s for the Asplin ...

Two historians say African American slaves may have used a quilt code to navigate the Underground Railroad. Quilts with patterns named "wagon wheel," "tumbling blocks," and "bear's paw" appear to have ...