Quilt Alliance

From The Quilter on Fire, "My guest today is Amy Milne. She is the Executive Director of the Quilt Alliance. This organization cares so much about quilts. I don't even know where to start. They have documented tens of thousands of quilts, recorded 1500 stories, and made millions of quilters happy by saving and sharing this information. So let's explore the story of the Quilt Alliance with Amy Milne."

From the Quilt Alliance: "Our final block of the 30th Anniversary Block of the Month is out today! This stunner of a block from the legendary Georgia Bonesteel will build on your skills from the first months and is a fun challenge for the end of the year." Click through to take a look at the Month 9 block and how you can join in on the fun!

Click through to take a look at the Month 8 Block for the Quilt Alliance's 30th Anniversary BOM. This month's design comes from Carole Lyles Shaw, a past guest of The Quilt Show.

From the Quilt Alliance: "The Ardis James QSOS Scholars program funds educational and creative work that uses our collection of 1,200+ QSOS oral histories with quiltmakers. The program is open to researchers, artists, students, historians, folklorists, and any other quilt enthusiasts who will use interviews in the archive to inform new work." Find out how you can participate and become one of the two scholars selected for the 2024 program.

Presented by the Quilt Alliance, "Join us for an oral history interview with quiltmaker Casey Engel conducted by fellow artist Kimberly English for the Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories project (QSOS)." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

From the Quilt Alliance, "This month's block is made using three block units — a Pinwheel, four Chevron units, and four Corner units. The instructions guide you through making each of those units in that order.​" Click through to take a look at the Month 7 "Birthday" Block and how you can join in on the fun! Why is it a "Birthday" Block? You'll just have to read on and find out for yourself!

From the Quilt Alliance, "Last month, we practiced accuracy with a no-waste method for making flying geese. We’ll be building on that skill this month as we create smaller flying geese units for this block with a meaningful story. Inspired by her personal journey of starting to quilt by flying solo, before joining a gaggle of quilters in a guild, our designer for this month is the skilled artist and designer Andrea Tsang Jackson of 3rd Story Workshop." Click through to take a look at the Month 6 block and how you can join in on the fun!

Presented by the Quilt Alliance, "In this Textile Talk, attendees will sample programming from the last three years of Quilt Alliance’s annual virtual event Quilters Take a Moment." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

The third and final day's workshops for Quilters Take a Moment (QTM) 2023, taking place Thursday, October 26, 2023, from 12:00 - 4:30 pm Eastern Time, have been revealed in detail and will highlight Photographing Your Quilts. Learn the ins and outs of how to make your quilt shine using just photographs.

The second day's workshops for Quilters Take a Moment (QTM) 2023, taking place Thursday, October 19, 2023, from 12:00 - 4:30 pm Eastern Time, have been announced and will feature a spotlight on Labeling and Documentation. Find out why this important practice of documenting your quilts is something every quilter should know.

The annual Quilters Take a Moment (QTM) is fast approaching next month and the Quilt Alliance has begun to shine a light on what workshops you will be able to take part in. The first day's workshops, taking place Thursday, October 12, 2023, from 12:00 - 4:30 pm Eastern Time, will focus on Writing For and About Your Quilts. Come take a look and see what you can learn.

In each episode of the Running Stitch podcast, quilts and quiltmaking serve as a lens to examine some of today’s most pressing issues, including activism, public health, politics, race, and the economy. They dig into the QSOS archive to listen to excerpts from past interviews, and bring back interviewees to ask them about what they are working on and thinking about presently. The Quilt Alliance just released a bonus episode, featuring an interview with Roderick Kiracofe originally recorded as a Textile Talk. You won't want to miss this conversation about off-beat but beautiful quilts.

From the Quilt Alliance, "In the first four months of the Quilt Alliance’s Birthday Block of the Month celebration, we’ve had delightful quilt blocks that stretch our skills, and for month five we have something we haven’t seen before in this sew along — two classic quilt blocks coming together to create one new, almost three-dimensional shape!" Click through to take a look at the Month 5 block and how you can join in on the fun!

For today's segment focusing on the Quilt Alliance's Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program, we are bringing you an interview from the earlier days of the project. Recorded in 1999, Miriam Nathan Roberts is interviewed about what it's like to be a unique and contemporary quilter of the time period and discusses her quilt Tectonic Boogie, which was inspired by the major earthquake in California in 1989.

The Quilt Alliance's interview from the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program this week is all about Barbara Ann Bauer Barrett​. Barbara, in conversation with interviewer Shelly Pagliali, talks about the quilt that she brought along, Sing a New Song, how she is "an active member of many groups and guilds", and about being a "member of the International Quilt Association (IQA)".

This week's Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview from the Quilt Alliance features Karen Musgrave talks with Jannett Caldwell about a special Alzheimer's Forgetting Piece by Piece Q.S.O.S., which relates to Jannett's quilt, Losing My Mind a Piece at a Time.

In July, the Quilt Alliance is excited to share a foundation paper pieced block by Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill as part of their 30th Anniversary BOM. For some of you, this might be a new or daunting technique, but don't worry! The blog post has a ton of great tips, plus a link to a great tutorial from Sheri herself, who specializes in making this kind of sewing as easy as possible. Join the Quilt Alliance and find out how you get to participate in this fun project!

For this week's Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview from the Quilt Alliance, Nancy Martin takes the spotlight to share one of the log cabin quilts she has made and to talk about "her personal connections to quilting, including how she began quilting, how quilting has impacted her family life, and her quilt business and books she has written."