Ten years ago, Oroville native Ashley Coffey was hanging out downtown with some girlfriends she’d know since high school. She expected to come home with maybe a purchase or two from one of the ...

If Prairie Queens Quilt Shop conjures up images of another time, that’s just fine with Debbie Thornton. That’s exactly what she meant to do. Before she opened the store in the Cambrian Park Plaza – ...

When the owner of a popular Lakeview quilt shop was young, at her mother’s orders she would stay inside and sew to battle the stifling New Orleans heat. “Little ladies don’t go out in the heat and get ...