OSKALOOSA — Elke Lassiter, of Ozawkie, holds up her quilt as she explains to other members of the Kansa Prairie Quilters Club that the pattern came from a Japanese quilting book. Behind her, women sit ...

I work a full-time job and spend my after-work time parenting my 2-year-old daughter. I get one hour of free time between her bedtime and my own, and every night, I spend it quilting. I've been ...