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 Hewett. Lisa 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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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."

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’Brien, Lynne 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.

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 Show) Meg 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."

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.

Pauline Salzman is interviewed this week for the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance and comes from the Houston Quilt Festival back in 2000. In it, Pauline talks about a wall hanging she made which she'd like to update (wouldn't we like to do that with all of our quilts), and how "a good quilt must tell a story and be technically sound."

Our selection from the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance today features Norma Storm. Norma, who shares her tiger quilt, was interviewed as part of the South Central Michigan QSOS. In her discussion, she talks her love of quilting, learning the craft, and "the experience of publishing articles about quiltmaking."

This year the Quilt Alliance has a fun and easy way for you to be part of their work to save quilt stories. Shop their Giving Quilt to support the work of the Quilt Alliance today and throughout the holiday season. Your gift of any amount will help them continue doing the important work of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of all quilts and quiltmakers.

We continue our spotlight on the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance by highlighting Michael Cummings. Michael, who was featured on The Quilt Show as part of a field piece, was interviewed for this piece live by Carolyn Mazloomi at the 2017 Quilters Take Manhattan event. In it, he shares his quilt, African Jazz #10, and "talks about his process, inspiration, and the tools he uses to make his art quilts inspired by music, African-American history, and American culture."

Go Tell It at Textile Talks is the last Textile Talks presentation of 2022. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, December 14, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.

Lilo Bowman, Editor-in-Chief and Production Manager for The Quilt Show, has made a Go Tell It video for the Quilt Alliance to preserve the story of her quilt, Looking at the Stars and Thinking of You, which she made in honor of her sons when they lived and worked overseas. It is a perfect story for this holiday season, especially when we can't be with the ones we love.

Today's Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance is one of their more recent interviews and features a quilter we have not yet had as a guest on The Quilt Show. His name is Zak Foster, and in his interview he discusses learning to quilt, making quilts using repurposed and found materials, and talks about his quilt, O, America!

For our spotlight on the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance this week, we are featuring someone who has been on The Quilt Show before, but not as a main guest. Pat Sloan was featured on our show as part of a remote shoot to talk about her time hosting a quilting podcast. For this QSOS, Pat talks about her quilt, Times Remembered, her most important moments as a quilter, and what Pat Sloan's favorite part about "being Pat Sloan" is.

The Quilt Alliance is featuring another Quilters' Save Out Stories interview as part of their weekly Textile Talks. This week's subject is Bonnie K. Hunter, who has been a guest of The Quilt Show and is "the head, heart and hands behind Quiltville.blogspot.com and the new retreat center Quiltville Inn." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, November 23, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.