Winterthur Quilts Conference Quilts in a Material World Preserving Quilters’ Oral Histories: The Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories Project Model Workshop featuring Susan McKelvey, renown quiltmaker and author One of the best ways to learn about quilts is from quiltmakers themselves. This workshop highlights the importance of saving quiltmakers’ stories, and introduces an enjoyable [...]
Dr. Don Carleton, Director of Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin cordially invites you to meet Ms. Mary Evelynn Sorrell the Center for American History’s new assistant director for Windale and new Alliance board member and to view “Put a Roof Over Our Head” quilt exhibit. Sunday, February 18, 2007 Reception [...]
We have produced some boxes of Put a Roof Over Our Head note cards! I’m excited and hope that you are two. I have a couple of boxes left so if you’re interested, please e-mail me at karenmusgrave@sbcglobal.net. Enjoy! Karen
Traveling with the “Put A Roof Over Our Head” quilts (www.centerforthequilt.org/contest.php) is a book for people to record their impressions and thoughts on the exhibit. I thought I would share some of them with you. We will begin with Asheville, August 2006. “What incredible creativity and craftsmanship. The quilts look even better ‘in person’ than [...]
The weaver I was suppose to meet came down with a cold so we left Bishkek and went to the Burana Tower. The tower is just about all that is left of an city from the 10-12 century. I climbed the tower which is only half its original size. My legs still have not recovered [...]
Forty-seven of the “Put a Roof Over Our Head” quilts are on their way to the Genesee Valley Quilt Club quilt show. I want to thank both Ruth Santos and Beth Davis for all their support and help with this. The quilts will be at the Webster Community Field House, 800 Five Mile Line Rd., [...]
One of our members, Tracey Stone, recently e-mailed to tell us about GoodSearch (www.goodsearch.com/), a search engine powered by Yahoo that donates $.01 to a designated charity every time someone does a websearch via their search engine with that charity selected as the beneficiary (drop down list right below search field). How? In a nutshell [...]
These are some of the quilts from our Put A Roof Over Our Head contest/traveling exhibition in Asheville, North Carolina at Artemisia. Yvonne Porcellla couldn’t quite fit all the quilts in so hopefully someone else has a picture and if they do I will post it. I’d like to thank Kim Dills who donated her [...]
I thought I would share a photo of the board plus our executive director Amy Milne and Laura Mandeles, a consultant in Asheville, North Carolina. This is not the entire board because not everyone could make it. It was a great meeting and you can see by our smiling faces we were happy. Karen First [...]
From Klara Schafler of Landesberg, Israel on July 18th Thank you for your concern this night was the first we managed to sleep a few hours, we have spent the last days running in and out of the shelter. I could hear the hits close by. I live in a area surrounded by chemical plants [...]
I know that 2007 is not exactly around the door but it will be here before we know it. And The Alliance’s “Quilts” 2007 wall calendar has arrived at the office! I can’t wait to get my hands on one! Remember Alliance members get a great deal- Buy one and get one FREE! We have [...]
One of the things that I have loved about curating The Alliance’s “Put a Roof Over Our Head” contest and traveling exhibit has been getting to know the artists of these incredible quilts. Maude Haeger’s “Casa de Sol” was a huge hit at NQA and I wanted her to know. She sent me the quilt [...]
The Alliance truly appreciated NQA giving us a booth at their show in Columbus, Ohio from June 7-10. Thought I would share some photos of our booth. Our “Put a Roof Over Our Head” quilts were a HUGE hit. I felt like one proud mom. Enjoy! Karen
The Zanesville Art Center in Zanesville, Ohio has a selected the following quilts from The Alliance’s “Put a Roof Over Our Head” which will be on display until July 23 — “Cover Us” and “Toolman” by Yvonne Porcella; “Our House” by Keti Karashvili, Irina Lavrinenko, Nino Chargeishivili; “Wings of Love” by Karen Musgrave, “Icon-Domestic Goddess” [...]
The raffle quilt drawing party at my house on May 21 was a lot of fun even though no one at my house won it. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Shelly Zegart, our president, was the winner but when her name was drawn she had it quickly put back. I [...]
EVENT & DATES: The Quilters Hall of Fame Celebration is July 13-16, 2006 in Marion, Indiana, home of the restored historic Marie Webster House and headquarters of The Quilters Hall of Fame. (90 minutes northeast Indianapolis; 2 1/2 hours west of Columbus; 2 hours south of Michigan; etc) You can help by posting this to [...]
The Quilt Index is expanding! Work is underway to bring quilts online in 2006 from the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, the Museum of the American Quilters’ Society, the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, the Nebraska Quilt Documentation Project at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Texas Quilt Search and Winedale Center for American History atUniversity [...]
On Saturday, April 8, at Art Quilts at the Sedgwick a team of Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories volunteers conducted interviews. Bernie Herman stated that a great success due to the efforts of Melva Hightower to make it happen and the University of Delaware Q.S.O.S. team. The team represented a wonderful reunion too. Heather [...]
We thought it might be helpful for people to see how fun and easy these quilts are to make so I’m sharing two of Yvonne Porcella’s contributions. Please also know that the quilts that Yvonne and I are creating are not illegible for prizes. They are donations to an organization that we love. Of course, [...]
I think that most people don’t realize that a cadre of volunteers make most of what The Alliance does happen. At this time, I would like to single out one volunteer from Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories project. Evelyn Salinger has personally conducted and transcribed over 30 interviews and 21 of those interviews have [...]