After a brief hiatus, our focus on the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance returns with Lisa Ellis, who was previously a guest of The Quilt Show. In this interview with Karen Musgrave, Lisa discusses many topics including her quilt Miriam's Dance, which she says is "Inspired by the story in Exodus following the parting of the Red Sea when Miriam leads the Hebrew women in a dance of celebration."

What are Quilters' Save Our Stories interviews you ask? "Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories (QSOS) is a project of the non-profit Quilt Alliance. The project creates, through recorded interviews, a broadly accessible body of information concerning quiltmaking, both present-day and in living memory. Our archive for the original audio recordings and photographs is the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. QSOS volunteers from across the country conduct and transcribe these interviews. We appreciate their generosity of time and dedication to the project!"

Click Here, or the images of Lisa's quilt below, to hear her story.

Learn more from Lisa by watching her on The Quilt Show in How To Make Cathedral Windows By Machine And Thread Paint with Lisa Ellis | Making A Contemporary Chinese Coins Quilt.

Quilt Photo: Miriam's Dance by Lisa Ellis (Photo from Lisa's website, www.ellisquilts.com)

Miriam's Dance by Lisa Ellis - Detail (Photo from the Quilt Alliance)