The Star's 2010 quilt project: Block 2 - KansasCity.com

Time for Block 2 of The Kansas City Star's 2010 quilt project, “Across the Wide Missouri: A Quilt Reflecting Life on the Frontier.” The block-of-the-month project has moved from Sunday's H+H section to FYI. This year's quilt, designed ...
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Add spring to your steps | Home & Garden | Wichita Eagle

Step up the look of your stairs with carpet runner as shown recently installed in the home of Patricia Shackelford of Kansas City, Missouri. (Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star/MCT). Your home should rise up to greet you, lifestyle experts preach. ... "You could almost make a colorful, modern patchwork quilt with your stairs." Aubrey McClintock of Old Forge, Pa., and her husband, Lee, swapped out their scuffed rubbery stair treads for zebra-print Flor carpet tiles. ...
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Blackbird Designs - One stitch at a time: Ruffle Binding and Contest

This view is the back of the quilt top. Turn under a hem in the facing and blind stitch it down. It's really not too hard. And really adds a sweet touch to this quilt. Our engagement calendar is at the Kansas City Star's warehouse! ...
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Threads and traces: Quilt Thursday: bees and quilts, or ...

Quilt Thursday: bees and quilts, or synchronicity strikes again. The Honey Bee quilt block from the Kansas City Star collection, originally published in 1929. Our family genealogy work, as I mentioned before, started in earnest with my ...
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Called from the suburbs to a Haitian mountaintop - KansasCity.com

Contact Us · Past Articles · Star in Education · Kansas City Store · Readers' Representative · Front Pages · Star Awards · Code of Ethics · Star Tours · Star Speakers · Star Quilts · Hemingway ...
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First Friday features Belger Arts Center's 10th anniversary show ...

By ALICE THORSON. The Kansas City Star. Kansas City artist Janet Kuemmerlein created portraits of prominent women jazz musicians, including Marilyn Maye, for the American Jazz Museum's upcoming show. ... some drawn from the collection, but many more that draw on the talents and interests of the Kansas City community. The list includes shows of folk art, 20th-century chair design, art pottery, quilts and African art — many assembled by local guest curators. ...
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quilt block patterns | Bargello Quilt Patterns

... and the same name can apply to several different quilt blocks. If I understand your description correctly, you may be talking about a block called "Star of Bethlehem" or "A Pattern of Chinese Origin" in the Kansas City Star. ...
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Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Kansas City Star Patterns Online

Many of those unique patterns were published in the Kansas City Star, like the "Dogwood Blossom" below, a combination of spiky fans and checkerboard blocks. Dogwood Blossom, published in the Star February, 1934 ... You can get Star patterns online by subscribing to My Star Collection. For a $20 annual fee you can download a Kansas City Star quilt pattern once a week for a year---52 patterns. Each pattern has been redrafted to eliminate inaccuracies in the originals and ...
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Calendar - KansasCity.com

329 Southwest Boulevard. Sunday. First Sunday Family Fun Day: Noon at the Kansas City Museum. Explore family histories; create your own family history journals; construct your own story quilt. 3218 Gladstone Boulevard. Free. Tuesday ...
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us quilt shows | Patchwork Quilt Patterns

Newspapers generally have a blanket. In the United States. Rural areas. Kansas City Star truth. Starting model for the type. quilters in 1926. newspapers carried. In customs until 1961. Quilt patterns. Was published in the weekly. First, it is clear. ... Penny Halgren is a quilter of 27 years who enjoys sharing her knowledge of quilting with those who would like to learn how to quilt. Sign up for a free newsletter, quilting tips and quilt block patterns at http://www. ...
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