Thursday July 23, 2026, 2:00pm – 3:00pm, Marion Public Library Meeting Room B, 600 S Washington Street, Marion, IN
From the nineteenth century forward, a few — but not many — American quiltmakers put their names on their quilts. Some did more than that, embedding sorrows, sentiments, and messages in their patchwork. In this entertaining presentation, Marianne Fons takes you on a visual journey from the 1800s to the present, with quilts doing much of the talking. And by the way, it turns out making a quilt is more like writing a novel than one might think.
About Marianne Fons
Known to millions of quilters nationwide as the former co-host of Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting on Public TV, Marianne Fons co-authored Quilter’s Complete Guide with Liz Porter — one of the most popular quilting books of all time with over 500,000 copies sold. She taught and lectured about quilts coast to coast for twenty years.
In her hometown of Winterset, Iowa, Marianne spearheaded the establishment of the Iowa Quilt Museum in 2016 and the renovation of the Iowa Theater in 2017. Named Madison County Citizen of the Year in 2022, she writes the Substack column Reporting from Quiltropolis, offering slice-of-small-town-life snapshots of quilty goings-on in Winterset and beyond. A lover of narrative, Marianne has recently focused on fiction — workshopping novels and landing a book deal for one of her manuscripts.
