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Thelma Barr is a quilter from Pittsburgh who moved to Dale City, Virginia in 1956. Barr began in apparel, because she loves sewing. She moved to quiltmaking through the National Quilting Association (NQA). Barr earned a blue ribbon for her first…

Colene Adkins had learned how to quilt later in her life and was only a quilter for about year and a half by the time this interview was conducted. Despite her mother and grandmother being quilters she learned how to quilt at the library. Her…

Virginia Abrams is a non-traditional quilter from Delaware. She hand-dyes most of her fabrics, and puts them together using an improvisational curved piecing method. She began quilting 3 years before her interview, starting with Nancy Crowe patterns…