It’s a new year and a new Kansas City Star quilt. Welcome to the first installment of “Hazel’s Diary,” which introduces not only the quilt — a 1950s look, with appliquéd wildflowers over pieced blocks ...

Today we’re introducing the final block of The Star’s 2014 quilt project, “Where Poppies Grow … Remembering Almo,” including instructions on how to finish your quilt. The quilt honors those who served ...

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 ...

Astronaut Karen Nyberg poses wifth her and others' star-themed blocks at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Oct. 30, 2014. (collectSPACE.com/Robert Z ...

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.

Rags to riches: Before quilting made her a YouTube star, Jenny Doan says, “I could have written a book on how to feed a family for $50 a week.” Image: Tim Pannell for Forbes Jenny Doan is nibbling on ...