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 ...

A Hempstead woman who uses history and her African American heritage as inspiration for her art is now stitching together a quilt honoring local women and other trailblazers who've played major roles ...

Leaning over an ironing mat, Peggy Schultz of Onsted began an overnight quilting marathon with the idea of smoothing out the pieces. “You iron before you ever start,” she said. “And, you keep on ...

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 ...

Learn about the celebrated quilts made by a community of African American women in rural Alabama. Learn about the celebrated quilts made by an isolated community of African American women in rural ...

Mary Arndt is an award-winning quilter who will share information on her craft at the March 8 Fremont Area Women’s Connection luncheon. Behind her is her “January Snow” quilt. ELMORE — About 50 years ...

What started out as a sketch on a napkin one night at dinner has now been crafted to display Madison County’s Civil War history at the Pleasant View Home at Battlefield Park. About a year ago during a ...

It didn’t matter that many had no idea how to embroider. That didn’t stop about 175 people, most of them women, from packing the Segal Visitors Center on Evanston’s Northwestern University campus on ...

Sometimes you wanna go Where everybody knows your name And they’re always glad you came. The television sit-com “Cheers” ...