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Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories Galleries

The quilts presented in these galleries are quilts from the Quilt Index that were made by quiltmakers documented by the Quilts Alliance’s project, Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.). Q.S.O.S. creates, through recorded interviews, a broadly accessible body of information concerning quiltmaking, both present-day and in living memory, for scholarship and exhibition. This grassroots project continually captures the voices and stories of quiltmakers and posts the transcribed interviews here. The archive for the original audio recordings and photographs is the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

Q.S.O.S. volunteers from across the country conduct and transcribe these interviews. The Alliance for American Quilts appreciates their generosity of time and dedication to the project and is always looking for guilds, organizations and individuals to undertake their own Q.S.O.S. projects.

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Cat in the Window
Viola Canady
Washington D.C.
1989
Collection of the Michigan State University Museum acc.#2008:119.32

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Cuesta’s Choice
Hazel Carter
Vienna, Virginia
1983
Collection of the Michigan State University Museum acc.#2008:119.21

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Acid Rain
Sylvia Einstein
Belmont, Massachusetts
1991
Collection of the New England Quilt Museum acc.#2004.03

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Butternut Summer
Diane Gaudynski
Pewaukee, Wisconsin
1998
Collection of the National Quilt Museum acc.#1999.02.01

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October Morning
Diane Gaudynski
Pewaukee, Wisconsin
1999
Collection of the National Quilt Museum acc.#2000.03.01

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Listen to Your Mother
Jean Ray Laury
Clovis, California
1997
Collection of the National Quilt Museum acc.#2001.04.01

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Snails Trails
Scott Murkin
Asheboro, North Carolina
2005
Collection of the National Quilt Museum acc.#MT2006.02.14

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Merits of Bombs?
Meena Schaldenbrand
Plymouth, Michigan
2005
Private Collection

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Nelson Mandela’s Prescence
Meena Schaldenbrand
Plymouth, Michigan
2004
Collection of the Michigan State University Museum acc.#2006:158.1
 

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Sedona Rose
Sharon Schamber
Payson, Arizona
2006
Collection of the National Quilt Museum acc.#2006.03.01

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Signature Shoo Fly
Ami Simms
Flint, Genesee County, Michigan
1984
Private Collection

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Surf’s Up
Laura Wasilowski
Colorado
2002
Collection of the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum acc.#PQ.2004.035.001

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Breeze
Rachel Wetzler
St. Charles, Illinois
2006
Collection of the National Quilt Museum acc.#2007.09.01

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Lilies of Autumn
Juanita Yeager
Louisville, Kentucky
1991
Collection of the National Quilt Museum acc.#1997.06.32

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Will The Circle be Unbroken
Madge Ziegler
Newark, Delaware
1989
Collection of the American Folklife Center acc.#AFC 1997/011: Folder 9001 P1

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