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Good News for the Quilt Alliance They Will Receive $50,000 Grant

We are happy to announce that the Quilt Alliance has been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic.

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Warm Remembrances: Quiltmaking and Memory Making

The Quilt Alliance is excited to announce that their virtual quilt exhibition, Warm Remembrances: Quiltmaking and Memory Making, is now open to the public. This exhibition was created in conjunction with Quilters Take a Moment last September, but now anyone can tour the exhibit and see the amazing quilts, curated by Laura Hopper.

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Help the Quilt Alliance Reach Their Goal

The Quilt Alliance is a non-profit organization founded in 1993 to support and develop projects to document, preserve, and share the history of quilts and quiltmakers. They bring together groups and individuals from the creative, scholarly and business worlds of quilt making to advance the recognition of quilts and their makers and they would like your help.

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Quilt Alliance Podcast - Running Stitch Season 3

The Quilt Alliance's Running Stitch podcast is back for its third season and features quiltmakers such as Eliza Hardy Jones, whose quilts interpret folk songs through color and pattern, Zak Foster, a high school teacher turned full-time quiltmaker, and Sarah Steiner, who taught herself to quilt during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the trailer for the new season now and new episodes will be released weekly.

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Quilters Take a Moment 2021 Starts Friday - Here's The Full Schedule

Quilters Take A Moment 2021 begins this Friday, September 17, 2021. Join the Quilt Alliance for the biggest virtual quilting event of the year. Watch a Quilters Save Our Stories interview with Bisa Butler, conducted by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, get a virtual museum visit and guided tour of the QTMo exhibit, and so much more. See the full schedule for the weekend and get your tickets today to join in the fun.

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Quilters Take a Moment 2021 Preview with Frances O'Roark Dowell

Quilters Take A Moment 2021 begins next Friday, September 17, 2021. To get you excited about what's going to be taking place at the event, Quilt Alliance board president Frances O'Roark Dowell previews the event, including an interview with Bisa Butler, which will be the quilt storytelling virtual event of the year.

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Who Is The Quilters Take a Moment Emcee?

The Master of Ceremonies has been announced for Quilters Take a Moment 2021. It is someone near and dear to The Quilt Show's heart and a great quilter to boot. Quilters Take a Moment is just TWO WEEKS away and we can't wait for it to get started! Can you guess who the Emcee is going to be?

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Go Tell It! Interview with The Quilt Show Member Kristi Parker

Kristi Parker, one of our fabulous members here at The Quilt Show, has completed her Go Tell It video to preserve her quilt's story for the "Go Tell It!" Remember Me: Memorial Quilt StoryShare. Watch her share her story so that others will do the same and share their's as well.

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Win Tickets to Quilters Take a Moment 2021

The Quilt Alliance is giving away two tickets* to Quilters Take a Moment 2021! Were you a winner?

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Go Tell It! Interview with The Quilt Show Member Dale McMillan

Another of our wonderful The Quilt Show members, Dale McMillan, has completed another Go Tell It video to preserve her quilt's story for the "Go Tell It!" Remember Me: Memorial Quilt StoryShare. Take a look as we become even closer as a community through our shared stories.

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Go Tell It! Interview with The Quilt Show Member Susan Lindsey

Remember when Alex told the story of her father's quilt? Here's The Quilt Show Member Susan Lindsey and her quilt as she told it for the "Go Tell It!" Remember Me: Memorial Quilt StoryShare.

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Meg Cox's Go Tell It! Video

Have you recorded your video for the Go Tell It! series for the Quilt Alliance yet? The Quilt Show fan and guest of the show Meg Cox has, and after watching hers you'll see just how easy it is!

 

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Alex Anderson's Memorial Quilt StoryShare

The Quilt Show is teaming up with the Quilt Alliance and the International Quilt Museum to collect and share stories about memorial quilts. If you have made a memorial quilt or received one in honor of someone in your life, we would love to hear your story.

 

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Sacred Threads Quilt StoryShare

On June 18, 2021 the Sacred Threads Exhibition is gathering virtually for a very special event. They have partnered with the Quilt Alliance to bring you some very special stories of joy, inspiration, spirituality, healing, grief and peace/brotherhood through quiltmaking in their Sacred Threads Quilt StoryShare.

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Quilters Take a Moment 2021 Event Tickets On Sale Now

Quilters Take a Moment 2021 event tickets are now on sale to members and open to non members on March 22, 2021.

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National Quilting Day 2021 Is This Saturday Day

National Quilting Day is this Saturday, March 20, 2021, and the Quilt Alliance and the National Quilt Museum are proud to be the coordinators of this special day!

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