Research and collecting is a continuous and exciting road of discovery. No matter how long a person has collected material or how much material has been accumulated, there's always something new to discover. Occasionally those new discoveries will be posted here.
It was the acquisition of the two patterns with the Mary Lee Quilts byline that inspired me to finally pursue an online format to share information and new discoveries.
My first major quilt-related research project was in 1983-84-85 when I scrolled through 244 reels of newspaper microfilm over a 17 month period to identify and date the quilt pattern collection published by the Kansas City Star and its farm paper, the Weekly Kansas City Star , later re-titled the Weekly Star Farmer , then self-published an Index to this amazing collection in early 1985, the first time this well-known collection had been methodically documented (see separate Kansas City Star page) and se