Earlier this month, we received a tweet from the owner of a quilt shop in Raleigh, NC. It read: “@WhyQuiltsMatter – so glad our shop @wishuponaquilt is sending quilts to the victims of #Sandy – that’s why quilts matter.” That Raleigh quilt shop is Wish Upon A Quilt, and–as a result of a call for quilts […]
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In 2001, I was very intrigued by a quilt up for auction on eBay. I’d always preferred quilts that stood out as being different in some way, even though I wasn’t really a seasoned collector. Around the same time, I discovered eBay. Scrolling through hundreds of pictures of antique and vintage quilts for hours – […]
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It’s hard to believe that it’s mid-November. The leaves are a memory (unless you’re still raking them!), the days are getting shorter, and the holiday season will soon be upon us. As the season of giving begins, we’d like to offer you a gift that will make the documentary Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & […]
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As this post is being written, one of, if not the biggest annual event on the “quilt radar” is winding down in Texas. For the past 10 days, tens of thousands of women and men from around the world—quilters, quilt lovers, quilt scholars, those in the business of quilting—have converged on the George R. Brown […]
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Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics by The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
