Rags to riches: Before quilting made her a YouTube star, Jenny Doan says, “I could have written a book on how to feed a family for $50 a week.” Image: Tim Pannell for Forbes Jenny Doan is nibbling on ...

HAMILTON, Mo. — A small idea in a small town has made a huge impact. Quilting turned the northern Missouri town of Hamilton into a thriving tourist destination. Jenny Doan is the woman behind the ...

LICKING, Mo. (KCTV) - A Missouri prison is getting national attention for the joy it continues to sew into the state. The documentary “The Quilters” follows a group of men at South Central ...

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 ...

Independent filmmaker Jennifer McShane came to Missouri to make her second documentary about prison life, focusing on an unusual group of men at South Central Correctional Center south of St. Louis.

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) – The brother and sister who started a quilting company in fall of 2008 to help recoup their parents’ lost retiring savings account have received national accolades. Alan Doan ...

When Al Doan suggested to his mother, Jenny, in 2009 that he film her making patchwork quilts and post the videos on YouTube, she was not at all receptive. “Isn’t YouTube where all those crazy ...

With a quilt exhibit at the History Museum on the Square that opened last week, Springfield began marking Missouri's bicentennial anniversary. Missouri joined the Union as a "slave state" on Aug. 10, ...

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 ...

Missouri Pettway, "Blocks and Strips Work-Clothes Quilt" (1942), cotton, corduroy, and cotton sacking, 90 × 69 inches, National Gallery of Art, Patrons’ Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep ...