You’ll never meet a nicer group of people. That’s what Spring Branch resident Susan McClendon said about the West Houston Quilter’s Guild, founded in 1993 and approximately 200 members strong. Members ...

A favorite image of pioneer days is groups of women gathered for a quilting bee. Quilting, which called for scraps of cloth to be sewn onto cotton batting, was a group project if there ever was one, ...

As a hobby, quilting is often about remembering loved ones. Today almost a million Americans make some kind of quilt, including replica Revolutionary War quilts, and, increasingly Underground Railroad ...

A family tradition that has carried on for the past 25 years began when my sister-in-law, Jan, created a handstitched quilt that would be given to her mother-in-law, (aka Grandma Nancy) to honor her ...

BEMUS POINT – The Bemus Point Historical Society will sponsor an antique quilt show at the Hotel Lenhart on Saturday, Aug. 13, from 1-5 p.m. Local quilters will exhibit prized antique quilts including ...

SUMMERFIELD - The three geisha girls, Goddess Barbara, Empress Mari and Lady Lisa, stare down from the walls at Whippoorwill Station shoppers. Each girl, embroidered differently on her respective ...

WASHINGTON — It's won an Oscar and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. At 1.3 million square feet, it would take up nearly half the office space in the new One World Trade Center tower in lower ...

CHANGSHA, China, Oct. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from Hunan Today: Shazhou Village, in Rucheng County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, nestles in the Nanling Mountains. For Qiao Laoye—a ...

In autumn-winter 1934, the Central Red Army arrived in Shazhou. Three female soldiers stayed at the home of Elder Xu Jiexiu. Before leaving, they cut their only quilt in half and gave one half to her.