Quilt Alliance

From the Quilt Alliance, "Last month, we practiced accuracy with a no-waste method for making flying geese. We’ll be building on that skill this month as we create smaller flying geese units for this block with a meaningful story. Inspired by her personal journey of starting to quilt by flying solo, before joining a gaggle of quilters in a guild, our designer for this month is the skilled artist and designer Andrea Tsang Jackson of 3rd Story Workshop." Click through to take a look at the Month 6 block and how you can join in on the fun!

Presented by the Quilt Alliance, "In this Textile Talk, attendees will sample programming from the last three years of Quilt Alliance’s annual virtual event Quilters Take a Moment." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

The third and final day's workshops for Quilters Take a Moment (QTM) 2023, taking place Thursday, October 26, 2023, from 12:00 - 4:30 pm Eastern Time, have been revealed in detail and will highlight Photographing Your Quilts. Learn the ins and outs of how to make your quilt shine using just photographs.

The second day's workshops for Quilters Take a Moment (QTM) 2023, taking place Thursday, October 19, 2023, from 12:00 - 4:30 pm Eastern Time, have been announced and will feature a spotlight on Labeling and Documentation. Find out why this important practice of documenting your quilts is something every quilter should know.

The annual Quilters Take a Moment (QTM) is fast approaching next month and the Quilt Alliance has begun to shine a light on what workshops you will be able to take part in. The first day's workshops, taking place Thursday, October 12, 2023, from 12:00 - 4:30 pm Eastern Time, will focus on Writing For and About Your Quilts. Come take a look and see what you can learn.

Presented by the Surface Design Association and WMQFA: ""This presentation features three artists who incorporate film into their fiber art practices. Nirmal Ra-ja, Jennifer West, and Holly Wong recast film as fabric that can be stitched, layered, or manipulated. The presence of the artist’s hand and an attention to the process of making is felt in each of the artist’s work as they explore the physicality of film and expand the medium conceptually." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

In each episode of the Running Stitch podcast, quilts and quiltmaking serve as a lens to examine some of today’s most pressing issues, including activism, public health, politics, race, and the economy. They dig into the QSOS archive to listen to excerpts from past interviews, and bring back interviewees to ask them about what they are working on and thinking about presently. The Quilt Alliance just released a bonus episode, featuring an interview with Roderick Kiracofe originally recorded as a Textile Talk. You won't want to miss this conversation about off-beat but beautiful quilts.

Presented by the Quilt Alliance: "Join us for a Quilters’ Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview with artist, longarm quilter, art historian, author, arts consultant, lecturer and independent curator and agent, Myrah Brown Green. Janneken Smucker, host of Running Stitch: a QSOS Podcast, will conduct the QSOS interview with Myrah." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

From the Quilt Alliance, "In the first four months of the Quilt Alliance’s Birthday Block of the Month celebration, we’ve had delightful quilt blocks that stretch our skills, and for month five we have something we haven’t seen before in this sew along — two classic quilt blocks coming together to create one new, almost three-dimensional shape!" Click through to take a look at the Month 5 block and how you can join in on the fun!

For today's segment focusing on the Quilt Alliance's Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program, we are bringing you an interview from the earlier days of the project. Recorded in 1999, Miriam Nathan Roberts is interviewed about what it's like to be a unique and contemporary quilter of the time period and discusses her quilt Tectonic Boogie, which was inspired by the major earthquake in California in 1989.

The Quilt Alliance's interview from the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program this week is all about Barbara Ann Bauer Barrett​. Barbara, in conversation with interviewer Shelly Pagliali, talks about the quilt that she brought along, Sing a New Song, how she is "an active member of many groups and guilds", and about being a "member of the International Quilt Association (IQA)".

This week's Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview from the Quilt Alliance features Karen Musgrave talks with Jannett Caldwell about a special Alzheimer's Forgetting Piece by Piece Q.S.O.S., which relates to Jannett's quilt, Losing My Mind a Piece at a Time.

In July, the Quilt Alliance is excited to share a foundation paper pieced block by Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill as part of their 30th Anniversary BOM. For some of you, this might be a new or daunting technique, but don't worry! The blog post has a ton of great tips, plus a link to a great tutorial from Sheri herself, who specializes in making this kind of sewing as easy as possible. Join the Quilt Alliance and find out how you get to participate in this fun project!

For this week's Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview from the Quilt Alliance, Nancy Martin takes the spotlight to share one of the log cabin quilts she has made and to talk about "her personal connections to quilting, including how she began quilting, how quilting has impacted her family life, and her quilt business and books she has written."

Presented by the Quilt Alliance, "Join the Quilt Alliance for a conversation with quilt maker and designer Libs Elliott, creator of code-generated quilts that are randomly designed by computer processing languages. Libs will be interviewed by professor and quilt historian Janneken Smucker for the fourth season of Running Stitch, a QSOS oral history podcast produced by the Quilt Alliance. Tune in for an exciting talk about the intersection of technology, handmade craft, and of course, quilts!" Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.

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).

Returning after a month's absence, the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance shines its light on Donna Marcinkowski DeSoto. Interviewed by Karen Musgrave of the Quilt Alliance, Donna talks about many things, including the creation of her quilt Cyclea Peltata, "why quilting is so important to her," and "how positive women coming together to make quilts is, and the positive impact it has had on women throughout history."

On Sundays we have been featuring interviews from the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance. Now Deb Josephs, the Quilt Alliance office manager of 16 years, wants to share some of her favorites that might have been missed the first time as the QSOS program celebrates its 25th anniversary next year.

From the Quilt Alliance, "This month, we're flipping the script, and sharing a block from Pat Sloan that draws from a long line of historic quilts made with the 'Churn Dash' pattern." Click through to take a look at the Month 3 block and how you can join in on the fun!