Linda Lindstrom Freeman

Linda Lindstrom Freeman

Linda Lindstrom Freeman talks about her personal background. Freeman says that when her kids were young, her aunt tried to get her to quilt. Her aunt, Beth Ford, would bring her quilt patterns to inspire Freeman and make a Sunbonnet baby's quilt for her daughter. She recalls being discouraged when she found out how long the quilting process would take. Freeman started quilting in the early 1980s with Cardinal Quilters after taking a beginning quilter's class. Freeman says that the quilt she has brought to the interview is the piece that she made in the beginning quilting class from Cardinal Quilters. She defines it as her most special piece because it is her first. Freeman says that the quilt represents her family, and each family member has a muslin block that represents their interests. Freeman says that she has not held positions in Cardinal Quilters, but she was the president of Virginia Star Quilters in 1989. Virginia Star Quilters is a Fredericksburg quilting chapter that is in the National Quilting Association. Freeman says she taught for the Quilt Block, a quilt shop in Stafford, Virginia. Freeman speaks on her involvement with the Virginia Consortium of Quilters' documentation project. Documentation Days would allow people to bring in old quilts and fill out forms documenting where it was made, what pattern it had, and what fabric and batting it consisted of.

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Quilting

Quilts

Quiltmakers

Quilt patterns

Families.

Quiltmaking process

Quilters

Quiltmaking

Linda Lindstrom Freeman

Ruth Duncan

Nancy O'Bryant Puentes

Alexandria, Virginia

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

Ruth Duncan

Cardinal Quilters

Virginia Star Quilters

National Quilting Association

Quilting process

Quilt designs

Fabric

Patterns

Sewing machines

Machine quilting

Unfinished objects (UFO)

Quilting community

Guild leadership

Quilt guilds

Quilting communities

Virginia Consortium of Quilters

Documentation Days

Virginia Consortium of Quilters' documentation project

Quilt shows/exhibitions

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