A Quilt That Will Knock Your Socks Off at the International Quilt Study Center Exhibition

I love looking at old photos where people are captured with beautiful old quilts.  I have a ton of questions I would like to ask the people in the photograph.  And I appreciate seeing the quilts in some sort of context with either their makers or the people who got to use them.

 

 

 

Looking at these old photos makes me appreciate all the more what the Quilt Alliance does with the Quilters’ SOS – Save Our Stories program; filling that modern day gap by documenting, preserving and sharing the stories of quiltmakers and their quilts.

 

There is an exhibit currently on (until December 1st) at the International Quilt Study Center, entitled “Posing With Patchwork: Quilts in Photographs.”  If I lived close to Lincoln, Nebraska, I would be there in a minute to see it.  Gratefully, because of the hard work of people I have never met and the power of the internet, I can still partake in what the exhibition has to offer.

 

You can read the introduction, watch a podcast, view the exhibition online and more.

 

And included in this exhibition is the quilt that was the “Quilt of the Month” at IQSC in March.  Check it out.  It will knock your socks off in all of it’s 10,222 piece glory! You can sign up for email list to be notified each month about the quilt that is being highlighted.

 

Have fun checking out all the links

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Happy Stitching!