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Founders &
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Karey Bresenhan
Nancy O'Bryant Puentes
Eunice Ray
Shelly Zegart
Meg Cox, President Mark Dunn, Vice-President Janneken Smucker, Secretary
Lisa Ellis, Treasurer
Kate Adams
Frances Holiday Alford Allie Aller Jodie Davis Brenda Groelz Marin Hanson Luke Haynes Amy Henderson Leslie Tucker Jenison Mark Kornbluh Mark Lipinski Pauline Macaulay Carolyn L. Mazloomi Michele Muska Steve Nabity Dean Rehberger Marie Bostwick Alex Veronelli Victoria Findlay Wolfe Mary Worrall StaffAmy Milne, executive director Debby Josephs, office manager Emma Parker, project manager for Q.S.O.S. Contact us! |
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 Thank you, Members!
These members renewed or joined since our last eBurst:
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Renewing Members
*charter members
Pamela Allen Denise Bevard Karen Bennick Darci Bodin Lynda Chenoweth Susan Cryderman Elizabeth Davis* Mary Ann Denton Anabeth Dollins Laura Nelle Goebel Elaine Gould Jan Harmon Patricia Ann Hobbs Ann Baker Horsey Barbara Hudson Leslie Jenison Patricia Johnson Deborah Jones Susan Knapp Anita Loscalzo* Nancy McGlothin Bonnie MacGregor Roseanne Miracle Eleonore Molstad Florine Meredith Shelly Pagliai Andrea Perejda Jeanne Poore Justine Self Pat Sloan Verna Wheeler
New Members
Marguerite Burrows Robin Buscemi Susan Cavanaugh Sylvia Einstein Carol Johnson Lauren Kingsland Pauline Macaulay Janice Martin Rebecca Nakanishi Antoinette Pietropinto Florene Rodney PJ Serge
Business Members
Tucker's Croft Quilting Keens, Mandeles & You and 
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Upcoming Events & Opportunities
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 Visit us in Booth 107 at QuiltCon in Austin, TX February 21-24, 2013
 TWENTY contest Deadline: May 1
Download guidelines
 Not Fade Away: Sharing Quilt Stories in the Digital Age conference in partnership with Sacred Threads Exhibition
Herndon, Virginia
July 20, 2013
Quilters Take Manhattan
Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, NY September 28, 2013
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Square in a Square made by Viola and Mildred Radtka
near Asheville, NC circa 1901-1929. Documented during
the Florida Quilt Project.
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Florida Quilt Project in Quilt Index
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The Sunshine State Quilters Association documented 726 quilts made between 1850 and the last decade during the Florida Quilt Project and now these records area available to the world via The Quilt Index, www.QuiltIndex.org.
Counting the Florida project, there are now 21 documentation projects covering specific states, from Hawaii to North Carolina, collected in the Index. Together they provide a detailed and fascinating glimpse into the styles of quilts popular in different times and regions of the country. With every new collection, the Index becomes more inspiring to today's quilters and a more useful tool for curators and scholars.
Artha Callinan, president of the Sunshine State Quilters Association, said the archival work was completed between 2009 and 2012. There were Quilt Discovery Days organized by guilds, historical societies and museums throughout the state.
The project required that in order to have a quilt included, the person who brought it to be documented had to live in Florida. Not surprisingly, many of the quilts were made or bought elsewhere, especially the older quilts. Part of what makes this project an interesting one to browse is the strong representation of popular patterns from the 1930s and 1940s, plus a good number of quilts made in the past 20 years. Read the full press release here.
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New Q.S.O.S. Interviews
| The Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories project just got a little bit bigger. With over 1,000 interviews presented on our website and archived in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, this collection is the largest of its kind.
Thanks to the support of a grant by the Ardis and Robert James Foundation matched by donations from devoted Q.S.O.S. patrons, the project is taking a big leap forward. New staff support (project manager Emma Parker), the debut of our first quilts and oral history conference (coming on July 20 in Herndon, Virginia) and the launch of a scholars program aimed at mining this valuable repository for inspiring and educational content, are all on tap for 2013.
Here are a few of the Quilters' S.O.S. interviewees you can read about on our website (click on the photo to read each interview on our website):  | | Laura Wasilowski, interviewed at the Georgia Quilt Show, in October 2011 |
 | | Victoria Findlay Wolfe interviewed in New York City in August 2011 |
 | Nancy Breland interviewed
in Pennington, New Jersey by Meg Cox in May 2011. |
To find out how you can get involved documenting quilters in your community as a Q.S.O.S. volunteer,
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