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Bonnie Browning, Long Time AQS Director, Steps Down

After an illustrious career spanning thirty years, Bonnie Browning, the Executive Show Director of the American Quilter's Society (AQS), has officially announced her retirement in April 2024, leaving behind a remarkable legacy in the quilting world.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Jane Hall

With the recent passing of Jane Hall at the age of 90, we'd like to share her Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview from the Quilt Alliance where she discusses everything from quilting during difficult times to the functions of quilts, pineapple designs, and finding joy in quilting (which we think she did quite often).

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"Tina" - A Quilt by Laurie Ceesay Landree

In light of the recent passing of music legend Tina Turner, we want to highlight a wonderful wall quilt of her, also entitled Tina, by Laurie Ceesay Landree. Find out more, and see details, of this stunning quilt.

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Ricky Tims Talks to Janet Stone at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2023

While attending the quilting festivities a few weeks ago, Ricky got to talk with award-winning quilter Janet Stone about her latest win with her quilt, Butterflies, Bees & AlphabeTrees, which took home the Brother International Corporation Best Wall Stationary Machine Workmanship Award at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2023.
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What Did Margaret Solomon Gunn Use to Make Her Best of Show Quilt?

Ricky catches up with Janome America Best of Show Winner Margaret Solomon Gunn at 2023 AQS QuiltWeek - Paducah, KY, where they talk about her quilt, Sweet Madame Blue, and what she used as her inspiration. (Also discover a little secret about what is NOT Margaret's favorite color.)
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Quilt Blocks for Ukraine

Claudia Pfeil is asking quilters to send her 8 1/2” blocks in blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag, and she will make them into quilts for refugees/children who are fleeing Ukraine. This blog has been updated with new information as of March 14, 2023.
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DAR Museum: Sheets Don't Sew Themselves - Calculating the Sewing in Pre-Industrial Women's Lives

Join the DAR Museum, February 14, 2023 at 12pm (Eastern) for their Virtual Tuesday Talk, Sheets Don't Sew Themselves: Calculating the Sewing in Pre-Industrial Women's Lives.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Alex Anderson

That's right, our very own Alex Anderson has participated in the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program and talked about her history of being a quilter, along with sharing the story of her quilt Mud, all in front of a live audience at the Houston International Quilt Festival in 2011.

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Artist Stories with Lisa Walton featuring Kestrel Michaud's Quilt "Not Today"

Last Sunday we featured Kestrel Michaud's award-winning quilt, Not Today, which won First Place in the Pictorial Small category at Houston 2022. Today we are featuring an episode of Lisa Walton's Artist Stories that focuses on that wonderful quilt, the detailed process behind how it was made, and looks at more of Kestrel's other incredible multi-piece quilts.

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Detail Photos From the 2022 Yokohama Quilt Show

We recently featured Victoria Stone's trip to the 2022 Yokohama Quilt Show in Japan to get a look at the amazing quilts on display. Now, we have detailed and up-close shots of some of those quilts for you to view. You'll be able to see the textures and quilting so well that it will be just like you're visiting the show alongside Victoria.

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A Look at the 2022 Yokohama Quilt Show

Patricia Belyea of Okan Arts is going to be a guest next year on The Quilt Show. Her experience in quilting has dealt mainly with the Japanese side of things and has herself visited the Tokyo Quilt Show. With there no longer being a Tokyo Quilt Show, the Yokohama Quilt Show has sprung up and taken its place and one of the members of Patricia's Okan Arts team, Victoria Stone, took the trip to Yokohama, Japan to check it out.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Ted Storm van Weelden

This week's subject for the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance is a master of quilting, Ted Storm van Weelden. Her quilt, Nocturnal Garden, was named a Masterpiece quilt in 2006 and is the work she is discussing here with Jana Hawley as part of her story, along with "her background as a textile teacher and her desire to know more about quilting."

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Gee's Bend's Historic Quilting Meets Modern Fashion

The women of Gee's Bend, Alabama have produced some amazing quilts over the years and now even Amazon has taken notice. In their 2022 Amazon Fashion Gift Guide they are featuring six women from Gee's Bend in a fashion photo shoot.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Roberta Horton

Many of our Quilt Show Legends have taken part in the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance, including Yvonne Porcella and Eleanor Burns. Today we are featuring another, Roberta Horton, one half of the dynamite quilting duo that she made up with her sister Mary Mashuta. In this interview, she talks about her quilt, Frau Horton"her creative process in both choosing fabrics and turning these fabrics into quilts", and "her hometown's influence on her quilt designs, and her relationship with her sister."

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Sandra Leichner

In today's installment from the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance, we are focusing on TQS guest Sandra Leichner. In her story, she discusses her phenomenal Pharaoh quilt, and shares how "she began quilting and her creative and technical processes in her quilting, including her favorite aspects of quilting, her ability to hand quilt as well as machine quilt, and her personal quilting style and influences."

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Judy Mathieson

Master of the Mariner's Compass, and treasured guest of The Quilt Show, JudyMathieson is the interviewee for this week's Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance. In her talk, Judy discusses her quilt,Bristol Stars"her signature traditional quilt design, the "mariner's compass" design," and so much more. What's fun about the quilt featured in this interview is that it was featured in Judy's episode of The Quilt Show and talked about with Alex and Ricky.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Pepper Cory

In this Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview, Pepper Cory "relates how she started quilting, and how she makes her living within the quilting world." While describing that journey, she talks about her quilt, Starry Night, and how it came to be. Along the way, Pepper also "describes her work space in her studio, as well as her process for selecting fabrics and creating the quilts. She talks about the importance of the International Quilt Festival and other cultural and business moments for that world."

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Joe Cunningham

This week's guest that we are sharing from the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance is a special one. It's Joe Cunningham, who was the very first guest on The Quilt Show over fifteen years ago. In this interview, he shares his quilt, Tree Everlasting"which he made in 2001 as part of his musical exploring the life of Joe Hedley from England, who lived in the early 19th century." He also "describes his evolving philosophy of the intersections among quilts, art, and tradition."

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How to Purchase Tickets for Festival of Quilts

Get inspiration from textile galleries, see hundreds of competition quilts, and take advantage of shopping opportunities galore @TheFestivalofQuilts in Birmingham, England! Here's how to get tickets.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Cynthia England

Two-time TQS guest and picturesque pictorial quilt maker Cynthia England is the subject of this week's Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance. In it, she talks about not one, but two quilts, Piece and Quiet, one of her serene forest pictorial quilts, and Power of Houstoncelebrating the city of Houston and the International Quilt Festival, which she made with Libby Lehman and Vicki Mangum.

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