Ruth Wescott Duncan

Ruth Wescott Duncan

Ruth Wescott Duncan discusses her education and career as a librarian. Duncan says that her childhood quilt and the quilt she is showing today are similar. Her childhood quilt is in the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich and has six generations' worth of quilts. She talks about her favorite and least favorite aspects of quilting, and how many hours per day she spends quilting.

Duncan has been with the Cardinal Quilters since 1987 and met them when she was a librarian at the Duncan Branch Library. She mentions that in 1986 she was a member of Beth Ford's beginner's quilting class. She shares that she has retired at 45, but is still with the Cardinal Quilters. During her time as a Cardinal Quilter, she says she has held positions such as secretary and president. Duncan says that the group is much smaller than it used to be due to deaths and people moving away. Duncan mentions that there is a quilting group at her church that she is a part of. With her church group, she has made handmade quilts with machine appliqued hands that were traced from members of the congregation.

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Quilting

Quilts

Quiltmaking

Quiltmakers

Quilters

Families.

Quiltmaking process

Ruth Wescott Duncan

Evelyn Salinger

Nancy O'Bryant Puentes

Fairfax, Virginia

Interview indexed by Ta'mya Ross with the support of the Virginia Quilt Museum

Evelyn Salinger

Cardinal Quilters

Childhood

Librarians

Quilt preservation

Generational quiltmaking

Grandmothers

Double wedding ring quilts

Quiltmaking classes

Applique

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