A few years ago, a young woman visited Born Again Quilts with a peculiar passion for a certain type of quilts and fabric. She wasn’t looking at beautiful fabrics and vintage quilts, rather she was looking through the remnant bins for small pieces . . .
At July’s 2025 Quilter’s Hall of Fame Celebration held in Marion, Indiana not only was Laurel McKay Horton inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame (TQHF), but they also inducted Hubert Ver Mehren as a Heritage Honoree.
The Heritage Honoree Award . . .
Artist Jeremy Stroup hard at work creating the first crosswalk mural at South Wayne Ave. and Lexington Ave.
Each side of the crosswalk will feature a bird and leaf design.
Once complete, he will begin work on another nature inspired crosswalk mural at . . .
On July 17, my friend Christine Lussier and I traveled to Marion, Indiana to the Quilters Hall of Fame (QHoF) to watch Laurel McKay Horton do a walk-through of her quilt exhibit. When I learned last year that she would be the next inductee, I was very . . .
This past winter Elizabeth Miller invited me to be the guest speaker at the Paulding Ohio Historical Society Quilt Show on April 8th. I arrived early enough to walk through the 50-60 vintage and contemporary quilts before joining the group at the freewill . . .
Soon it will be Father’s Day. Have you purchased a tie for dad or that special father figure in your life? If you have, you aren’t alone.
According to Grand View Research’s market analysis, “The global neckwear market size was valued at USD . . .
I was recently looking through a counted-cross stitch book of projects celebrating lesser-known holidays. Among them was a pattern celebrating a specific railroad. It piqued my curiosity if there was a specific holiday to celebrate trains. What I discovered . . .
As Easter approaches, those of us who take the Journal Gazette will be sure to see Ray Billingsley’s cartoon character, Curtis, once again sitting in a church pew next to his younger brother Barry admiring the church ladies walking down the aisle . . .
As the days get longer and the sun dries out the wet earth, soon it will be time for cattle drives to begin. Recently, due to the popularity of the TV show Yellowstone, cowboys and ranching are back in popularity. Many of us recall how popular westerns . . .
Valentine’s Day is here, and many people are knocking themselves out looking for that perfect gift, booking a reservation at the perfect restaurant, finding the perfect card to make the day oh so perfect. Not me. It’s just not my style. Sure, we . . .
Happy new year to all my readers. As it does, every new year brings anticipation as to what will happen to make the year memorable for better or worse. This year, for the first time, I plan to attend my high school reunion. This May it will be 50 years . . .
A few years ago, my brother Richard Levihn was volunteering at one of the Community Harvest Food Bank sites when he got to talking to a fellow volunteer, Dennis Claymiller. During one of their conversations, Richard mentioned that I owned a quilt/fabric . . .
Last December I received an email from Jim Parry of Science Central asking me if I’d do a quilt presentation for the opening of their exhibit Quilts: Light the World. I was honored and excited to share various quilts and show how the use of light . . .
While Hurricane Milton was creating havoc a few weeks ago, I was preparing a bundle of Halloween counted cross stitch patterns to sell including one entitled “Frank’s Family Portrait” of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein standing in front . . .
Lois Levihn, author of the “Around The Frame” column, stitches together stories of current events while highlighting a significance woven into each quilt.
As a Fort Wayne native, I grew up close to Waynedale graduating from Wayne High School . . .
Back on September 9, 2016, The Waynedale News published my column entitled Hillcrest School: Out of the ashes, Hope! Now eight years later that hope has turned into reality. After a lot of planning, budgeting and finding the right partners, there is . . .
At this year’s 47th Annual Maumee Valley Antique Gas and Steam Association Quilt Show, one quilt got me buzzing. It was a quilt entitled Honeybees and Sunflowers created by Rae Fuhrmann of Decatur. I wasn’t the only visitor buzzed by it as it took . . .
August 13 will mark the 48th annual celebration of International Lefthanders Day. First celebrated two months and 9 days after the United States Bicentennial, the Bill of Lefts were proclaimed.
Lefthanders International, the organization responsible . . .
Recently, on the way to Indiana Beach with my brother Richard, we got to talk about how we’d like our lives to be celebrated after we die. Richard is a very patriotic guy, so it wasn’t surprising he wants patriotic music like “The Star- Spangled . . .
On May 20, Samuel “Sam” Butcher, the creator of Precious Moments died. Butcher loved to draw from a young age, and he often drew scenes inspired by his Christian faith. Some of his fondest memories are of his grandmother telling him Bible stories. . . .
When I went to Wayne High School in its very early years (Sept. 1972- May 1975), Nancy Keller Mack was the Latin teacher. I didn’t take Latin, preferring to take German with Herr Lowell Shearer. My Low-German speaking maternal grandparents spoke . . .
Recently I had a customer pick up a grandmother’s flower garden quilt that was hand quilted by the Emmanuel Lutheran Church quilt group. While at the shop she told me she had a quilter friend she wanted me to meet so an appointment was made for me . . .
On March 16, the third Saturday of March, quilters will once again be celebrating their special day.
The National Quilt Alliance has partnered with the National Quilt Museum to draw attention to this special day with special signage and activities.
One . . .
Sometimes as a business owner, I need to go the extra mile for my customers. Sometimes it’s a small gesture like adding an extra piece of fabric to an order or tracking down a special craft kit that was near and dear to someone’s heart.
Last April, . . .
When I heard what transpired at the Waynedale Kroger on Dec. 7, I was sick to my stomach. When Perla Nieto’s photo was shown on TV, I stopped short. I rarely shop at this Kroger, preferring the Southgate one with its Chase Bank, Dollar Tree, and . . .
December is that magical month of the year when many cultures and religions celebrate the darkest time of the year and the beginning of the return to light. This is a great time to involve children in preparing for their traditions and to learn and . . .
As you read this, another city election has come and gone. I spent Election Day as I have the last few working as a poll worker.
This year Election Day, once again, fell on my birthday as it happens every few years. The last memorable time it did was . . .
Since 2000, when twenty women organized the Piecemakers Quilt Group, they have gathered for a purpose. Formed initially as a means of learning and promoting the art of quilting, Piecemakers have evolved into a dynamic, working organization whose primary . . .
This Labor Day, many people will enjoy cookouts and end-of-the-summer trips to the lake or other vacation spots. Summer is in its last gasps as autumn starts its season with cooler nights and pumpkin spice on every edible imaginable. For me, it is . . .
At the 2023 Quilt Celebration at the Quilter’s Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana, album quilts were the focus of the weekend.
Quilter Hall of Fame Inductee, Elly Sienkiewicz, whose name is synonymous with Baltimore Album quilts joined us by zoom as . . .