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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...