Browse Items (4 total)

Lourdes Barragan is a hispanic quiltmaker. She sells most of her quilts fairly successfully in California. The quilt she describes in this interview is a pictorial quilt depicting a desolate graveyard near the ranch where she was born.

Susan Atwell is a quiltmaker from La Porte, Indiana. She learned to quilt from her mother and grandmother, she recalls fond memories of trips to the fabric store with them, and began quilting herself when she was in her thirties and loves longarm…

Bertha Arizmendi is a hispanic quilter from Boonville, California. She began quilting in 2006 with the guild Los Hilos de la Vida. Her favorite part of quilting is designing, and she began quilting for income but became interested in the design…

Teresa Alvarez is a Spanish-speaking quiltmaker living in Boonville, California. She began with crocheting and needlepoint before moving to quiltmaking. Alvarez describes two quilts she's completed, "Tinkerbelle," and "The Fruit Basket," the latter…