Margie Ellen Guy Hockman

Margie Ellen Guy Hockman

Margie Hockman introduces herself and her touchstone quilt, which uses her favorite Double Wedding Ring pattern. She talks about her upbringing and her first quilts. Hockman talks about the various quilting guilds she has belonged to and her roles in them. She talks about what special meaning quilts have in women's history, as well as some of the historical-type quilts she has made. Hockman talks about how quilts can be preserved physically and how quilting as an activity can be preserved throughout the generations. She talks about her experiences exhibiting quilts at various museums and exhibitions. Hockman talks about hand quilting versus machine quilting and why they should be judged separately.

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Quilts

Quilting

Quiltmakers

Quiltmakers--United States

Virginia Quilt Museum

Quilting--Patterns

Quilting--United States--Patterns

Quilts--United States

Sewing

Double wedding ring quilts

Appliqué.

Margie Ellen Guy Hockman

Le Rowell

Harrisonburg, Virginia

JT Eissenberg

Evelyn Naranjo

Virginia Quilt Museum

1930s prints

Sewing machines

Quilting guilds

Women's history

Hand quilting

Machine quilting