After winning a $2 prize at a country fair during the Civil War, an extraordinary quilt vanished from sight. It remained mostly forgotten until the 1990s, when modern quilters rediscovered the unique ...

When Jane Stickle sewed the final stitches into her quilt, she must have been well pleased with her handiwork. She had good reason to be. She had just completed what is still hailed, a century and a ...

Quilters from around the world flock to Vermont to see an old blanket every year. That old blanket is actually an intricate sampler quilt, and Shaftsbury born Jane Stickle stitched it together in 1863 ...

BENNINGTON — The Civil War remains the nation’s bloodiest, with 1.1 million casualties, and nearly 620,000 lives claimed. Away from those 19th-century battlefields, however, a different kind of ...

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont museum is going to be celebrating the 150th anniversary of a quilt that has inspired quilters across the world. The Jane Stickle Quilt will be on display at the ...

So it began. The letter writer, Brenda Manges Papadakis of San Antonio, started a phenomenon nearly 17 years ago that circles the globe, brings 1,700 people together through an online quilting bee and ...