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 ...

Missouri Star Quilt Company, known as the "Disneyland of Quilting," offers a vast selection of fabrics and quilting supplies, making it a must-visit for quilters and their families. Pull out the ...

In 2009, my new quilting business was struggling to get off the ground. The recession had hit my family and my town of Hamilton, Mo., pretty hard and I had started Missouri Star Quilt Company as a way ...

Hamilton, Missouri, is seeking to diversify its attractions, even as it eagerly awaits the return of visitors to its popular fabric shops. Over the past 11 years, Hamilton, Missouri, has generated a ...

You may think quilting is just something your old Aunt Bettie does to keep herself occupied in her golden years, but you’d be sorely mistaken. Quilting’s adherents number in the hundreds of thousands ...

Just a few years ago, downtown Hamilton, Mo., looked a lot like a thousand other forgotten, rural towns. Abandoned, forlorn buildings marred the main drag. But in recent years, an explosively ...

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Precut fabric is my favorite. But what to make with those layer cakes in my stash? In this article, you will find over 25 ...

Rosalie and Charles Gilbert gazed at the gargantuan Missouri Bicentennial Quilt on display at the Center for Missouri Studies in Columbia, Missouri. Other onlookers questioned the meaning of the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If there’s one thing Jenny Doan knows about people who quilt, it’s that they care about people. “Mr. Rogers says, ‘Look for the helpers.’ Quilters are helpers. Almost all of what ...

This story was rebroadcast as part of our best-of 2015 series. It was originally reported in May 2015. Just a few years ago, downtown Hamilton, Missouri, looked a lot like many other forgotten, rural ...