Wanda Longsdorf calls it “happy mail.” Letters arrive in the Omaha woman’s mailbox filled with fabric from quilters all over the world, which Longsdorf uses to put together what are called postage ...

The true story of an African American woman from Marion, Indiana who, as part of the WPA Sewing-Room Projects, designed and pieced a postage stamp quilt which she presented to President Franklin D.

Kyra Hicks became a believer in quilts as storytellers upon seeing a traveling exhibition of Eva Ungar Grudin’s “Stitching Memories: African-American Story Quilts” in 1990. “That (very) afternoon in ...