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Documenting, Preserving and Sharing the History of Quilts and Quiltmakers.
eBurst from the Quilt Alliance March 17, 2012   
It's National Quilting Day! Celebrate with Stories!
QSOS_Spates
Q.S.O.S. interviewee and volunteer
Estella Spates
 
Our mission can be condensed into three words--document, preserve and share. Our passion is recording, protecting and celebrating the voice of this community--you! This issue is dedicated to 16 quilters whose stories have recently been captured by a passionate corps of volunteers for the Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories project. The "Q.S.O.S." collection of interviews are presented as written transcripts with photos on our website and archived by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

There are Q.S.O.S. volunteers working together in regional teams or solo all over the country (and soon in other countries). Jeanne Wright in Maine and Florida, Eleanor and Nancy Wilkinson, Pam Schultz, Estella Spates, Joyce Rupp and team in South Central Michigan, Alice Helms in Asheville and Evelyn Salinger in Washington, DC and New Mexico are all passionate 
volunteers making a huge contribution to the quilt community with their work.



If you'd like to get involved with Q.S.O.S. as a volunteer interviewer or transcriber visit our website for more details. We would love to have you on Team Q.S.O.S.!
Voices from Our Community
Meet 16 New Q.S.O.S. interviewees from across the country.
To read or print each interview click on the text links
below each group of photos. 
QSOS Album page 1
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QSOS photo collage 2
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QSOS collage 3

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QSOS collage

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Happy Quilting Day, everyone! 
 
With love and gratitude,
Meg and Amy in Nashville.3.2012

Amy E. Milne, Executive Director
and 
Meg Cox, President
The Alliance for American Quilts

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