Nancy Woods Lyons

Nancy Woods Lyons

Nancy Woods Lyons talks about her personal background. She says she was always surrounded by quilts growing up because her grandmother quilted. One of the quilts, the Snowball quilt, was featured in John Rice Irwin's "A People and Their Quilts" where it was labeled as unidentified. The pattern for the quilt came out in Charleston Daily Mail and was called Snowball. Lyons started her first quilt, The Roman Stripe, at 10 years old. Lyons says she heard about Cardinal Quilters through the "Quilter's Newsletter Magazine." She met the Cardinal Quilters in the 1970's and joined other groups like Hayfield and Springfield Quilters Unlimited and the Virginia Consortium of Quilters (VCQ).

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Quilting

Quiltmakers

Quilts

Quilt community

Virginia

Quilted goods

Quilt design

Childhood

Nancy Woods Lyons

Evelyn Salinger

Ruth Duncan

Nancy O'Bryant Puentes

Fairfax, Virginia

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

Evelyn Salinger

Quilt shows/exhibitions

Quilting community

Women in quiltmaking

Family

Grandmothers

Generational quiltmaking

Virginia Consortium of Quilters (VCQ)

Quilt magazines

Quilt designs

Cardinal Quilters

Gender roles

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