The Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance makes a triumphant return this week with an interview with Eileen Doughty. In it, Eileen talks about the quilt she brought, inspired by a story from J.R.R Tolkien that she read as a teenager, and amongst other things, her family's support of her quilting, her inspirations, her studio, and so much more.

From Amy Milne, Executive Director of the Quilt Alliance: "In this issue we are honored to present a guest essay from Karen S. Musgrave, a past volunteer and QA board member, who played a pivotal role in the development of the QSOS oral history project. Karen is an interdisciplinary, multihyphenate artist whose recent body of work deals with loss, memory, and identity. She feels passionately about connecting cultures with quilts. Karen's memories from her work with QSOS paints a vivid picture of what volunteer work can offer an artist, especially giving back to and gaining from a passion project."

The Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance brings us another riveting interview this week. Conducted in 2009 with Karen Musgrave, Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, Historian, Curator, Author, Lecturer, Artist, Mentor, Founder, and Facilitator, talks about her quilt He Stands on the Shoulders of Many, a story quilt made for the 2009 exhibit "Quilts for Obama" at the Historical Society of Washington, DC, as well as the Women of Color Quilters' Network, which Mazloomi founded in 1985.

It's Sunday, which means it's time for another interview from the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance. This week we feature Estella Spates, who "was interviewed as part of the South Central Michigan QSOS. She shares the design process of her "Three Dancers" quilt, her experience as an African American quiltmaker, and the importance of quilts in women's history."

From the Quilt Alliance, "Happy 30th birthday to us! And what better way to celebrate this milestone than with a huge quilt party? The best part is — you’re invited! And so are nine of your very favorite quilt designers who each designed a block for our first-ever block of the month quilt as a birthday gift to the Quilt Alliance.⁠" Click through to get a peek of what the BOM blocks will look like and how you can participate too!

For this Sunday's interview from the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance Marilyn Doheny discusses her quilt, Garden Critters Galore, and talks about how she began quilting and teaching quilting. She details her experience giving quilt lectures throughout Europe and discusses quilting's impact on her family life.

Learn a bit about the history of the Quilters' Save our Stories (QSOS) project from Emma Parker, Quilt Alliance Project Manager, and get a glimpse of three important interviews with quilters Victoria Findlay Wolfe, Dave White, and Donna Sue Groves.

National Quilting Day is this Saturday, March 18, 2023, but here at The Quilt Show, we like to celebrate all weekend long.

Join the Quilt Alliance for this week's Textile Talk, a Quilters’ Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview with printmaker, surface designer, textile artist, and author Jen Hewett. Lisa Woolfork, founder of Black Women Stitch and the Stitch Please podcast, will serve as the QSOS interviewer. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

Andrea Brokenshire, whose stunning and lifelike nature-inspired quilts have been a staple of quilt shows the last few years, is up next on our series highlighting the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance. For her QSOS, Andrea, who has been a two-time guest on The Quilt Show, chooses to focus on her quilt Summer Solitude, which she made for her daughter. Among other things in this interview conducted at the Houston Quilt Festival, Andrea "explains her quiltmaking process, as well as fiber art as a therapeutic practice."

For this week's Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance, we are shining the light on quilt historian Barbara Brackman. "In this interview, she recounts to Meg Cox how she began as a quilter by discovering historical quilt patterns." Some of the patterns she talks about are Kansas City Star quilt patterns that are all newsprint from the 1930s, which are significant to Barbara as her hometown is Lawrence, Kansas.

This week's Textile Talk features a quilter you're probably familiar with. That's right, Carole Lyles Shaw, who was just our guest on The Quilt Show, is now the guest of the Quilt Alliance and participating in Quilters' Save Our Stories (which we also feature in our Sunday Newsletters). Join them and learn "why every community should use this grassroots documentary project to save the stories of quilters." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, February 22, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

After a brief respite, the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance returns with a focus on Elly Sienkiewicz. Elly "is responsible for the revival of the Baltimore Album style quilt, in which each quilting block is unique and brought together with others to create an album of sorts." She was a guest as part of Series 4 of The Quilt Show and is featured here in one of the very first QSOS interviews that took place in the Fall of 1999.

The Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance returns this week with quilt artist Duncan Slade. In this interview, Duncan talks about his quilt Northwood's Suite Waterfall, which was commissioned for Nuveen Inc. headquarters in Chicago, "his relationship with his co-worker and wife, Gayle Fraas", and "his views on the importance of finding the right venue for artistic quilts and how his work changes him, but emphasizes his absence of ego."

For our spotlight on the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance​ this week, we feature Denyse Schmidt being interviewed at their annual Quilters Take Manhattan event in 2012 in front of an audience by then president (and past guest of The Quilt Show) Meg Cox. In it, they discuss her quilt, One Big Square, "her background in graphic design and dance, her inspiration for her quilt design, her design process, and the role of quilts in American life."

Pauline Salzman is interviewed this week for the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance and comes from the Houston Quilt Festival back in 2000. In it, Pauline talks about a wall hanging she made which she'd like to update (wouldn't we like to do that with all of our quilts), and how "a good quilt must tell a story and be technically sound."

If you are attending QuiltCon and have a smidge of time available, would you consider the following request and if you’re not attending, pass it on to friends. Show off your labels and/or techniques in the Quilt Alliance’s Labeling Lounge at QuiltCon. Sign up for a 30-min time slot (all days are open) to show our booth visitors how you label your quilts.

Our selection from the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance today features Norma Storm. Norma, who shares her tiger quilt, was interviewed as part of the South Central Michigan QSOS. In her discussion, she talks her love of quilting, learning the craft, and "the experience of publishing articles about quiltmaking."