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Textile Talks: Quilt Alliance's Anniversary Block of the Month - Meet The Designers!

In this week's Textile Talk, join your host (and BOM leader) Quilt Alliance co-president Laura Hopper and project manager Emma Parker in meeting some of the talented creatives participating in their 30th Anniversary Block of the Month project, featuring unique blocks designed by nine incredible partners, including past guests of The Quilt Show and our very own Ricky Tims. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

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Quilt Alliance: Community Quilt Days April 2023

The nonprofit Quilt Alliance and community partners will present two free Community Quilt Days at the Sandy Mush Community Center at 19 School Road, Leicester NC today, April 23, 2023 and next Sunday, April 30, 2023.
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Quilt Alliance: "We Are Our Stories" by Karen S. Musgrave

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."

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Carolyn Mazloomi

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.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Estella Spates

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."

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The 30th Anniversary Quilt Alliance Block Of the Month

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!

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Marilyn Doheny

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.

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Three Interviews That Show Us Why Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) is So Special

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 WolfeDave White, and Donna Sue Groves.

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Things to Do Over International Quilting Weekend 2023

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

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Textile Talks: QSOS Interview with Jen Hewett Conducted by Lisa Woolfork

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 HewettLisa 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.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Andrea Brokenshire

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."

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Go Tell It! Interview with Michael A. Cummings

Congratulations to Michael A. Cummings, who was just named a 2023 NEA Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael, who was previously featured on The Quilt Show in a field piece, brings his quilts to life with a rich level of artistry and history. In this Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! interview from the Quilt Alliance, you'll be able to see both on display as he talks about his Frida Kahlo quilt.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Barbara Brackman

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.

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Quilt Alliance to Present a Series of Free Community Quilt Days starting in Sylva, N.C. on March 4, 2023

The nonprofit Quilt Alliance and community partners will present a series of free Community Quilt Days in Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, and Eastern Kentucky, starting in Sylva, N.C. on March 4, 2023.
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Textile Talks: QSOS Interview with Carole Lyles Shaw

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.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Elly Sienkiewicz

After a brief respite, the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance returns with a focus on Elly SienkiewiczElly "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.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Duncan Slade

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."

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Textile Talks: Labeling and Documenting Anonymous Quilts, presented by Quilt Alliance

Centuries from now, when our quilts still exist and we'll be gone, we want future generations to know who made these quilts and why they were important to us. In this week's Textile Talk, the Quilt Alliance shines a light on "the conundrum of how to label and document quilts with no name or known provenance" with the Know-It-Alls group of quilt historians, Alden O’BrienLynne Bassett, and Julie Silber, along with moderator Meg Cox. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, February 1, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Denyse Schmidt

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 ShowMeg 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."

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Quilt Alliance Looking For QuiltCon 2023 Volunteers

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.

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