Realizing they couldn't replicate nearly 700 red-and-white quilts, they created the sampler pattern instead. The women posted quarterly instructions on how to piece together the blocks to complete ...

A crafty astronaut has sewn a starry-quilt block aboard the space station ... recently revealed her handiwork a 9-by-9-inch (23-by-23-cm) red, white and blue square that she stitched together ...