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Susan Carr
Susan Carr is a quilter from North Carolina who makes appliqued quilts that are hand quilted. Originally from Florida, she is involved in an active community of quiltmakers who use their talents to support their communities. In addition to making…
Ann Klimstra
Ann Klimstra loves working with color and finding ways for odd colors to work together. She uses a design wall to audition the colors and to keep from making mistakes. She believes love in your heart makes a great quilter. Ann uses her skills to…
Nancy L. Orcutt
Nancy L. Orcutt is a self-taught, Vermont quilter who has been active in private quilt groups, local quilt guilds, and state-wide quilting events for many years. She believes that loving what you do makes a great quilt maker. Nancy grew up with a…
Melanie Testa
In this interview recorded live in front of an audience at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, Amy Milne, executive director of the Quilt Alliance since 2006, interviewed artist, author, teacher, agent provocateur, and firebrand…
Victoria Findlay Wolfe
In this interview with quiltmaker and philanthropist, Victoria Findlay Wolfe and interviewer Meg Cox discuss how her upbringing in Minnesota attracted her to quilts, as well as how she uses quilts to connect with the community. Wolfe runs an online…
Evelyn Barber
Evelyn Barber began quilting in 1979 when she was 43 years old. She knew how to sew, but did not get into quilting until she took a class taught by Blanche Young at the Vermont Quilt Festival. She now teaches quilting in the studio Barber's husband…
Sonya Lee Barrington
Sonya Lee Barrington is a self-taught quilter from San Francisco, California who began quiltmaking in 1968. She began in apparel, and became interested after seeing many quilts in antique shops. Barrington does strictly hand quilting and makes many…
Evangelina Angulo
Evangelina Angulo began quilting in January 2006 in a quilting class she took while furthering her education. Though she still has some of her quilts, Angulo prefers to sell her quilts to people who will appreciate them, and to help put her son…
Kathryn Anderson
Kathryn Anderson is a generational quilt maker, but did not start quilting until after she retired from being a teacher. She creates a booklet for her children of blocks she salvaged from her mother’s and grandmother’s quilts she had used and had…
Chrissy Atwater
Chrissy Atwater is a quiltmaker from Florida, part of the Venice Area Quilt Guild and a smaller internal group called the Cut-Ups. She's been quilting for over 50 years and learned from her grandmother. Initially, she was apprehensive about quilting,…
Helen Allen
Helen Allen has been quilting since about 1980 while she was attending night school. She belongs to a quilter’s bee called “White on White”,and is also an active member of her quilt guild Piecemakers. Allen believes a quilt should have meaning, which…
Elizabeth Allen
Elizabeth Allen is a self taught quilter, choosing to learn from books and magazines rather than a class. She began quilting in her early to mid-forties to make a quilt for her niece who was having a baby. Allen has continued to make quilts for her…
Pamela Allen
Pamela Allen began her career as an assemblage artist and eventually took up quilting. She considers quilting a type of art, and therefore views fabric as the medium she creates with. Because of Allen’s background as an artist she prides herself in…
Lela Alcorn
Lela Alcorn learned how to quilt at the age of six from her mother, and now is a quilt teacher herself. She belongs to a guild, and is passionate about the love and the sense of family felt among quilters as a society. To Alcorn quilts are the…
Joan Abshire
Joan Abshire quilts as a hobby in Massachusetts. For this interview, she brought a quilt entitled "My Canadian Home," which she found the pattern for in a quilting magazine. Abshire was a quilter 20 years prior, but took several years off to pursue…