Nancy Crow: 1997 TQHF Honoree
After last week’s shopping spree, I am making good on my promise to write about a live Honoree. I don’t know which is harder: the live ones often have great internet links, but I never know how they’ll react to…
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Shopping at TQHF!
I was going to tell you about a living quilter this week, but there’s something time sensitive I need to address. As I write this, there are only 19 more shopping days until Christmas! But don’t worry; The Quilters Hall…
Lenice Bacon: The Special Beauty of Handmade Things
While nodding off after Thanksgiving dinner, it came to me that there have been several times when I wrote, “I’ll tell you about that later” or “That’s a whole other discussion”. Well, this seems like as good a time as…
An Audience With the Queen: Bertha Stenge
If you own a fascinator, now is the time to wear it; get out your white gloves too because we’re going to meet the Queen. Queen Bertha Stenge, that is—the 1930s-40s “Queen” of Chicago quilting. Of all the blogs I’ve…
Carrie Hall: Co-author of “The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America”
As I do my background reading to write these posts, I usually find myself wishing I could meet the Honoree. These women and men are always remarkable, and there’s often some twist that makes them real for me. But that…
Mary McElwain: Road Trip!
Road trip! Who wants to go to a lovely little quilt shop in Wisconsin? Well. at least virtually that is. But before we go, I’m sorry to report it, but I have Bloggers’ Block. I spent the time I should…
Marguerite “The Cat” Ickis
How did you learn to quilt? In my case, no one in my family was a quilter, so I was introduced by a friend. I purchased four block of the month kits from JoAnns and gave it a try. Then…
Grace Snyder: Making Quilts and Making Dreams Come True
Idle hands may be the Devil’s workshop, but Grace Snyder must have put him out of business. The story of her life is told in an autobiography written with her daughter titled No Time on My Hands. One reason she…
Mary Gasperik is named as Heritage Honoree for 2021
Hooray! Hooray! Yippee! Hooray! It’s a good thing I’m writing rather than talking because I’d be tripping over my tongue with excitement. I have big news. A few months ago, I told you about the process for nominating someone to…
Jonathan Holstein: Quilts From the Bed to the Wall
My first blog entry was about Gail van der Hoof, who is known as one of the forces behind the ground-breaking quilt exhibit at the Whitney Museum in 1971. Now it’s time to tell you about the other half of…