tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38807199754312346752024-03-04T22:44:28.272-08:00The Quilters Hall of Fame BlogKarenQuilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12883452794136245078noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880719975431234675.post-78830717981068317112017-08-30T21:12:00.003-07:002017-10-26T10:48:05.163-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Celebration
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<i>Dr. Virginia Gunn’s diverse background in the decorative arts -- far wider than just quilts -- enables her to frame historical quilts from any era within a broader historical context and a wider human narrative. The fact that she settled on quilt history as one of the major focuses has broadened the field of quilt history enormously.</i></div>
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In 1980 when the American Quilt Study Group was founded,
there were no graduate programs offering degrees in quilt history; no academic
gatherings in which to present scholarly papers on quilts; no journals dedicated specifically to the history of the quilt in which
to publish scholarly research. All three conditions have changed dramatically
since 1980. Dr. Virginia (Ginny) Gunn has played a vital role in the reordering
of this disparity within the academic world since the days of such desert
conditions for quilt scholarship. Many of us who know Ginny personally were
thrilled to learn in 2016 that she would be inducted into The Quilters Hall of
Fame in July 2017.<br />
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Those of us lucky enough to be able to attend Ginny’s
induction July 20-22 (2017) in Marion, IN were treated to an exciting
array of lectures by Ginny, not the least of which was a wonderful overview of
her own life story. Presented below are just a few highlights of her induction week.<br />
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You know how quilt historians love to know more about the personal stories behind the lives that have so greatly impacted quilt history in the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Ginny supplied it in spades in her lecture luncheon, <i>My Textile Journey</i>.</div>
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I for one am very grateful that Ginny shared slides of her
personal odyssey that reflected the ever-expanding popularity of the needlearts
revival of the 50s-70s era; of her pursuit of her educational dreams and goals of first a Master's and then a Ph.D;
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Along the way came learning how to quilt, discovery of the American Quilt Study Group, teaching, writing and lecturing.<br />
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<i>Gunn served on the Board of AQSG from 1984-1993, and as President 1990-1993</i></td></tr>
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Following her personal story, Gunn then shared her in-depth
academic knowledge on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Red & Green
Quilt Era</i> as well as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quilts of
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slide lectures were exciting and substantive, as they always are at AQSG as well, and
I personally had a number of questions I had been pondering for some time,
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That Gunn has a diverse background in the decorative arts far
wider than just quilts, has enabled her to set the quilts of any era into a much broader
historical context. That she settled on quilt history as one of the major focuses of her
career and personal love has broadened quilt history enormously. My notes from these three lectures are a very brief overview of them.</div>
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Inspiration and interpretation! Isn’t this the nuts and
bolts of every design era change no matter the subject? Some fascinating
questions Gunn examined: what was behind the shift from piecing to appliqué beginning
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furnishings (cartouches and scrolls), furniture (curved legs) and architecture
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How did the artists of the era influence
the Jacquard weavers and conversely how did their patterns influence quilt
designs? How did migration routes influence disbursement of quilt patterns? This
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Gunn's 3<sup>rd</sup> lecture <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quilts of the Modern Era</i> addressed the fast paced
industrial changes in the first 40 years of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, among other things, as well
as the shift of design influences from German to French due to the alliances of
WWI. Gunn also went to some length to share the changes within fabrics, dyes
and print styles as well as the beginnings of the commercialization of the
quilt industry. In the late 30s, as war rose again in Europe, she pointed out
the noticeable design shifts that arose once more, this time from French to
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Using *slides as well as actual examples from her collection,
Gunn gave a very graphic and helpful sense of the subtle color changes within
fabrics that took place in the mid-1920s as well as mid-1930s, making it much
easier for yours truly go home and reevaluate the quilts in her collection from
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<b>A personal anecdote about Ginny Gunn shared at Celebration</b></div>
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I first met Ginny Gunn when I attended my first AQSG Seminar in 1985 in San Rafael, California. In those days, we did not have bid numbers at the Silent Auction. We simply had bid-sheets on which we wrote our name and bid amount. I happen to outbid Ginny on an old segment of what I think is Eastern European embroidery. (I'll have to ask Ginny!) Being the pack rat I am who must document everything (just ask my family), I still have the bid sheet as well as the antique piece of embroidery.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Other Lectures at Celebration 2017</span></b></div>
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The quilt history lecture selections at this year’s TQHF Celebration also
included AQSG members Xenia Cord, Sue Reich and Honoree Merikay Waldvogel. All in all, the combined shared
knowledge by these four quilt historians stitched together the first 40 years
of the fabrics of the 20<sup>th</sup> century in great depth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Stay tuned for more recaps from Celebration 2017! If you enjoy quilt and textile history, I highly encourage you to join both <a href="https://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/2242809">TQHF</a> and <a href="https://americanquiltstudygroup.org/">AQSG</a> both! <br />
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Also visit The Quilters Hall of Fame on Facebook for more photos!<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">I know we can all look forward to a similar rich offering next year when textile historian and folklorist Xenia Cord is inducted into The Quilters Hall of Fame next July (19-21) so mark you calendars now.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Here are a few Gunn articles from </span></b></div>
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"Victorian Silk Template Patchwork in American Periodicals 1850-1875," by Gunn, Virginia, in <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/journals/article.php?Akid=2-B-12E">Uncoverings 1983, pages 9-25</a>.<br />
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"Quilts for Union Soldiers in the Civil War" by Gunn, Virginia, in Uncoverings<a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/journals/article.php?Akid=2-B-13E"> 1985, pages 95-122</a>.<br />
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"Quilts at Nineteenth Century State and County Fairs: An Ohio Study," by Gunn, Virginia, in <a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/journals/article.php?Akid=2-B-9E">Uncoverings 1988, pages 105-28</a>.<br />
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"Quilts for Milady's Boudoir," Gunn, Virginia, in <a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/journals/article.php?Akid=2-B-A7">Uncoverings 1989, pages 81-101</a>. </div>
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"The Gingham Dog or the Calico Cat: Grassroots Quilts of the Early Twentieth Century" by: Gunn, Virginia, in Uncoverings<a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/journals/article.php?Akid=2-B-75">, 2007, pages 1-26</a>.</div>
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"Reflections on Quilt History: Accomplishments and Challenges" by: Gunn, Virginia, in Uncoverings <a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/journals/article.php?Akid=2-B-87">2009, pages 171-190</a>.<br />
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"McCall's Role in the Early Twentieth-Century Quilt Revival" by: Gunn, Virginia, in Uncoverings <a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/journals/article.php?Akid=2-B-88">2010, pages 11-64.</a><br />
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KarenQuilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12883452794136245078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880719975431234675.post-66602348819566558112015-09-07T22:49:00.000-07:002016-07-21T21:54:37.280-07:00Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi to be Inducted in 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Historian, Curator, Author, Lecturer, Artist, Mentor, Founder, and Facilitator — the remarkable and indefatigable <a href="http://www.carolynlmazloomi.com/">Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi</a> has left her mark on many lives. Trained as an aerospace engineer, Carolyn Mazloomi turned her sights and considerable talents and efforts in the 1980s to bring the many unrecognized contributions of African American quilt artists to the attention of the American people as well as the international art communities.<br />
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From the founding of the African-American Quilt Guild of Los Angles in 1981 to the 1985 founding of the Women of Color Quilters Network (WCQN), Mazloomi has been at the forefront of educating the public about the diversity of interpretation, styles and techniques among African American quilters as well as educating a younger generation of African Americans about their own history through the quilts the WCQN members create.<br />
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A major force as an artist in her own right, Carolyn Mazloomi’s quilts have been exhibited extensively in venues such as the Mint Museum, American Folk Art Museum in New York City, National Civil Rights Museum, Museum of Art and Design, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. <a href="http://www.carolynlmazloomi.com/gallery">Her pictorial narrative quilts</a> make plain her personal themes: family life, women’s rights, political freedom, and musical legacy. Her own quilts have been included in over 70 exhibits and she herself has curated 17 extensive exhibits of quilts made by members of the Women of Color Quilters Network, many of them traveling exhibits.<br />
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Among the many exhibitions she has curated is “<a href="https://www.cincymuseum.org/traveling-exhibits/and-still-we-rise/accolades">Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations</a>”, which visually surveys 400 years of African American history. It is the largest traveling exhibit of African American quilts ever mounted and will travel for four years. In 2014 Mazloomi, along with co-curator Dr. Marsha MacDowell of Michigan State University Museum, presented an exhibition to honor Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa.<br />
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Dr. Mazloomi’s quilts can be found in private collections around the world as well in distinguished museum collections in the United States. <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/index.php?q=node/1245">Mazloomi made a significant donation</a> from her personal collection of quilts made by herself as well as by members of the Women of Color Quilters Network to Michigan State University Museum in November 2014. An endowment accompanied the donation and a future donation of additional quilts will eventually follow.<br />
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To date Dr. Mazloomi has published eight books. All her books, except Threads of Faith, are inclusive of African American artists not in WCQN. Her artistic work, as well as her defense of solid research, has disrupted long-standing myths about African American quilts, myths much debated among quilt historians and quilters alike, and thus moved the conversation about African American quilt history forward to more a solid academic footing. <br />
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Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi has been the recipient of many state and national honors, among them the 2003 <a href="http://www.oac.state.oh.us/news/NewsArticle.asp?intArticleId=742">Ohio Heritage Fellowship Award</a>, the first such award for any Ohio citizen; in 2014 she was named a <a href="http://arts.gov/art-works/2014/heritage-numbers">National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts</a>, one of the most prestigious national arts awards an American citizen can receive; also in 2014 she was awarded the Distinguished Scholar & Celebrated Artist Lifetime Achievement Award by Faith Ringgold's <a href="http://acffessay.blogspot.com/2014/07/carolyn-mazloomi.html">Anyone Can Fly Foundation, Inc</a>.<br />
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KarenQuilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12883452794136245078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880719975431234675.post-13825721553311151452015-06-25T17:47:00.001-07:002015-06-26T10:55:48.201-07:00Mimi Dietrich Interveiw - 2015 TQHF Honoree<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Baltimore Quilt Revival started in Maryland and Mimi Dietrich played a large part in it. With her encouragement, her students formed the Baltimore Applique Society, a group that has promoted Baltimore Album quilts and raised money donated to museums to restore and display the quilts of this style.” </i></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">AQSG member Phyllis Hatcher Twigg </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">It's hard to realize just how many years have passed since the exhibit "Baltimore Album Quilts" debuted, first at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas (November 18, 1980 - January 11, 1981); then The Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, New York ( June 30 - August 30, 1981) and finally </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://artbma.org/documents/findingAids/BMA_TextilesDepartmentRecords.pdf">at the Baltimore Museum of Art </a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://artbma.org/documents/findingAids/BMA_TextilesDepartmentRecords.pdf">(December 13, 1981 - February 7, 1982)</a>. The Baltimore Museum of Art published its catalogue of the exhibit under the same title, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Baltimore Album Quilts. </i>The exhibit and book were produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dena_Katzenberg">Dena Katzenburg</a>. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(If you are lucky, you may be able to find a copy for less than $75.00.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Honorees of The Quilters Hall of Fame are an amazing group of people, yet they are each unique as individuals. I like to attempt to present more than one side of an Honoree when I research and write about them. Doing a live interview offers me this opportunity. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>An oral interview is “in the moment” and though questions are prepared ahead, one never knows where an interview will actually go if you let it remain spontaneous. Mimi Dietrich is a joyful person and I hope the interview reflects that. In a future article about Mimi, I hope to share more about her endeavors for she is indeed one very accomplished woman! </i></span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy';"><o:p></o:p></span></span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"><i>So on with the Show! </i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When I graduated from college, I became a middle school teacher. In 1972, I discovered a store called Stretch and Sew and decided to quit my real job and go to work there. It was the best decision I ever made. We were trained in some incredible sewing techniques with stretch fabrics. The owner, Vicki Drammis, taught me so much more than basic sewing: how to teach adults, how to adjust pattern sizes, and even marketing skills. While I was working there, three of us became pregnant at the same time, and we decided we would make quilts. I had never made one before but thought “If they can do it, I can do it.” That was 1974. One made a Hawaiian quilt, one made a patchwork quilt, and I made an applique quilt, Sunbonnet Sue and Bill. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I went for quilts with “things” on them, rather than abstract designs. I was influenced by some of the magazines on the market at the time. Good Housekeeping comes to mind. I found Sunbonnet Sue there, and I really wanted a little girl, but I had to put the boy figures on, too, since I didn’t know if the baby I was expecting was boy or girl.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Did your mother or other family members get you started in textile arts?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My great grandmother made quilts in the 1930s for my mom’s family. There were 8 children in my mom’s family and each had a quilt made for them. My Mom's quilt was a Dresden Plate and I slept under it growing up. I remember picking apart some of the stitches, wondering how they were made. Mom embroidered, but she did not quilt. The lady next door sewed and she really got me started in sewing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I tried to stay working at Stretch and Sell, but it didn’t work out. After having children, I decided I couldn’t be a full-time employee. But I did have some other jobs, like teaching people how to use sewing machines at Sears. I had no fear of trying to take a sewing machine apart to see how it works. I was always wondering what I would be when I grow up. I was thinking of going back to be recertified as a middle school teacher when someone said how would I like to teach 4-year-olds? I loved the experience! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then I read the book “What Color is Your Parachute?” As I answered the questions, it led me in the direction of realizing “I want to write a book!”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 1977 I read that <a href="http://quiltershalloffame.net/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Jinny_Beyer.287183627.pdf">Jinny Beyer </a>won the Good Housekeeping quilting contest, so I went to Washington DC and took a drafting class with her. She was a great teacher. By the end of the class, I felt like I could draw any pattern you could think of. The other influence was <a href="http://quiltershalloffame.net/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Bonnie_Leman.287185908.pdf">Bonnie Leman</a> of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine. Anna Holland and Ann Oliver’s quilts (both of Northern Virginia) also had a great impact on me. My reaction to their quilts was “Wow! Who would think to do that?” I also met <a href="http://quiltershalloffame.net/history">Hazel Carter </a>about this same time, the founder of the Continental Quilting Congress in 1978 and a year later she founded The Quilters Hall of Fame. How wonderful that she imagined bringing quilters together to share their ideas and show their quilts….and made it all happen!</span><br />
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<b style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What were some of your key decisions that led you to enter the quilt world?</b><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">First, giving up middle-school teaching and learning how to sew at Stretch and Sew. The second was the Fisher Price tape recording of my class at the quilt shop. But the third was the Baltimore Museum of Art exhibit in the early 1980s. It was amazing. I’d seen quilt exhibits before that, but this one blew me away, partly because it was applique, partly the colors (reds and greens), the details of the stitches. And it was all in my hometown! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Baltimore Museum of Art published its catalogue of the exhibit </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(</span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">Dec 13, 1981 - Feb 7, 1982) </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">under the same title, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Baltimore Album Quilts. </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The exhibit and book were produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dena_Katzenberg">Dena Katzenburg</a>.</span></div>
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<i>Mimi Dietrich with Emily Pleton, "my quilter's apprentice" says Mimi. </i><i>The red heart block in the above quilt is an example </i><i>of a </i><i>paper cut doilie </i><i>reverse appliqué quilt block.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">I especially remember the blocks that looked like paper-cut doilies, a type of reverse applique. These were made in the 1840s and 1850s, when people didn’t have the light, the technology or the free time we enjoy today. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626;">There were nine of us that saw that exhibit together. One was Dallas Clautice, the quilt shop owner. We looked at each other and said, “if women in Baltimore over 100 years ago could do this, we can, too.” Then we set out to create a wide array of designs and made 9 copies of each block and swapped. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">Dallas Clautice, the woman who owned the quilt shop I mentioned earlier, said “Why don’t you teach a class?” That inspired me to design a Baltimore pattern that was simpler than the traditional ones. I taught that class in 1986. That class launched me into the teaching of Baltimore Album applique. I started with a little block, loosely based on antique blocks, with each block having Baltimore elements, like flowers, leaves, baskets, wreaths. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">In 1989 I was then asked to teach at another quilt shop, Seminole Sampler, from Elly Sienkiewicz’s book, “Baltimore’s Beauties and Beyond”. The first time I taught the class we had five sessions with fifteen students in each session....that's 75 students. I had a blast teaching them. Baltimore quilts are traditionally red and green, but some students didn’t like red and green so I told them to pick a color or design they did like. Some students even used batik fabrics. I told them, “It's your quilt! Use the colors and designs you like!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">I remember thinking back then that “I need to make one of every type of quilt.”</span><span style="color: #262626;"> </span><span style="color: #262626;">Eventually I did make many of them.</span></div>
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<i>A Baltimore Bouquet class in the 1990s</i><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When I wrote my second book, I knew this was serious. The person responsible for that is Nancy Martin. (She published my first book, too.) After my first book, at Quilt Market, she put her hand on my shoulder and said, “What is Mimi going to do next?” I thought that I had said all I wanted to say in “Happy Endings”, but then I thought about the next book and the next. I have stayed with Martingale and Company - That Patchwork Place through <a href="http://www.mimidietrich.com/book">17 books</a> now. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I wrote three Baltimore books, beginning with “Baltimore Bouquets” (1992). The latest is "Baltimore Blocks for Beginners". </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My students like dimensional appliqué techniques. “Baltimore Bouquets” had about 20 blocks, smaller blocks, so they could trace patterns right off of the page. That’s kind of my style – smaller blocks with fewer pieces, to simplify the process and get people started. A lot of students are satisfied with that, while others want more, but I provide them with the starting point. Some of my students have gone on to teach classes. Marylou McDonald is one of them. I think technology has made a big difference in how quilters share today.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Internet has made a lot of opportunities possible for teachers like myself that weren’t available to earlier generations. I now work with <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/project/view/finishing-school-options-2/144334">Craftsy</a>, which is an on-line platform with classes in quilting, knitting and crocheting plus other subjects, like woodworking. They’re only about 3-4 years old, based in Denver. A cameraman at Craftsy said that the business has really taken off due to new technology – like portable tablets. Some classes are free. In paid classes, the teacher will even get back to you if you type in questions. I emailed and said I would like to teach an applique class. They wanted me to do a finishing class, but I wanted to do an applique class. Then they mentioned scallops. I ended up doing “Finishing School,” starting with the back of the quilt, binding, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I did this just over a year ago, and there have been 21,000 students so far. The students’ questions have not been overwhelming at all. Most of the common questions are already answered. This technology makes it possible for me to teach over 20,000 without leaving home! That’s equivalent to over 1,000 classes in my previous style of teaching. It's really amazing!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Eventually I flew out to Denver a second time and got to tape the applique class I had wanted to do in the first place. I had a wonderful time doing it. They are in the process of editing it now. You think you cover everything, but then I got a question from them, “do you wash your fabric first?” And I realized I had forgotten to say that! <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/instructors/mimi-dietrich">"Hand Appliqué Made Easy”</a> now also has more students than I could ever imagine….what a great way to teach!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From the questions people ask, I can tell who is trying to do it all alone. I expected questions rather than testimonials, but I heard wonderful feedback from people who were very thankful to learn this craft. The classes cost $30 or $40 but they have sales all the time. Marketing is via Facebook, email blasts, and blogs. If you sign up with them, you’ll hear from them every day. Their marketing is incredible!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Because most of them are younger and they had a new vision – cleaner, simpler designs, fast and easy because of time. The next generation of quilters want to live more simply, minimalistic. They don’t have lots of magazines, clutter, etc. It’s kind of a revolution against a quilt filled with so many different design elements. They have given the design “space”. And they can make this type of quilt without a lot of free time. It's important to listen to and inspire younger quilters!</span><br />
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"Baltimore Basics" – 2006 - 56"x 56"</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes. My major was American Studies. It was the perfect preparation for quilting. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) was founded in 1966, when I graduated from high school and I went there when it opened. One of the things I did several years ago was go back to UMBC and asked if they had ever taught quilting, which they called “material culture” (a neat term), so I taught a class for mostly older (returning) students but my favorite students were women's basketball players and art students. I taught about Baltimore history, got a grant from NQA, to take them shopping at the quilt shop to buy anything they wanted — colors, good fabric. The women and the girls in the class were so excited.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I've been teaching my year-long Baltimore class for 20+ years. Very often, people finish a quilt. Others come without much to show or tell and nothing to finish. I find out later that they took the class because they had a loss in their life. Those who lost a child often can’t talk about it then, but I find out later. Then they say something like “Taking your class got me through.” That’s when you can believe in the power of what you do. I later met stitchers who worked on the Star-Spangled Banner Flag Project who were using that to get through a bad time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Many people feel a unique since of history embedded in a quilt because others have touched it through the generations – “grandma touched this.” Like Walt Disney said (in the new Tom Hanks movie): “Isn’t life magic?” Quilts are magic to me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Years ago, when I had young boys who ate my cooking or messed up my cleaning, I really treasured my quilting stitches. When I was quilting, I often thought, “Nobody can take this away from me.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2014 is the 200th anniversary of the poem Francis Scott Key wrote after watching the bombardment of Fort Henry from a British ship in Baltimore Harbor. As the sun came up, he could still see the 30 feet by 42 feet flag waving over Fort McHenry. That’s what inspired our National Anthem. That flag is now in the <a href="http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/preservation-project.aspx">Smithsonian</a>. Last year was the 200th anniversary of the making of that flag by Mary Pickersgill. Kristin Shenning, the education director at the <a href="http://www.mdhs.org/star-spangled-banner/">Maryland Historical Society</a>, decided to make a reproduction of that flag. About 200 volunteers signed up to work on the flag, it was very much like making a quilt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kristin’s mom, Beverly Schenning, was in charge of the stripes. I was in charge of the stars. We started on July 4, 2013. By the end of July we were ready for the canton with the stars. The appliquéd stars were two feet wide, made of kona cotton. The flag itself is wool. Stitching on wool is like stitching on gauzy fabric. We were able to accomplish 17 threads per inch on the stars, so they did not tear the wool. We cut away the blue behind the stars, appliqueing the raw the edges, in a form of reverse appliqué. It was challenging, fun, exciting, it was a social experience – 200 people working on a big project, and <a href="http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/13/09/06/recreating_baltimores_famous_star_spangled_banner">more than 1000 people taking stitches</a> in the flag. Amazing!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 1814 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Young_Pickersgill">Mary Pickersgill</a> made the original flag by August 22. Only we had air conditioning and a huge room and 200 volunteers and 1000 people coming through on “public stitching days,” making one or two stitches. <a href="http://www.wbaltv.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/maryland-historical-society-recreates-starspangled-banner-flag/20853786">The news coverage</a> was incredible. We had politicians, the mayor of Baltimore and TV reporters. Last year on September 14 (2013), known as Defenders' Day in Baltimore, they flew this flag over Fort McHenry. We all got to go inside and hold the flag, becoming a part of history.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This year (2014), with the Star Spangled 200 celebration, we had Tall Ships and Blue Angels flying over. To the minute, our flag went up the pole again. It was shown at the Milwaukee American Quilt Study Group conference and it thrilled everyone, made chills run up your spine. The project was called “Stitching History”. Two ladies who were descendants of Mary Pickersgill were part of the celebration, coming up from Texas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bags are packed way ahead of time for the class needs itself because that, to me, is the easy part. If you’re teaching a class, you have a class check-list and that makes packing very easy to manage, but ‘what clothes will I wear on the trip’ is a more difficult last-minute decision. </span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, Mimi Dietrich, stitches do stay put and leave a legacy! </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You are a living proof of that adage. </span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mimi Dietrich has also been an inspiration to many a cancer survivor. To read her inspirational writings be sure to visit her blog by clicking here <a href="http://www.mimidietrich.com/journey">Mimi’s Cancer Journey </a>and see her book <a href="http://www.mimidietrich.com/book">Pink Ribbon Quilts: A Book Because of Breast Cancer</a> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by Mimi Dietrich, published 1999 by Martingale And Company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I hope many quilt lovers plan to attend <a href="http://quiltershalloffame.net/">Mimi Deitrich's induction</a> in Marion, Indiana, July 16-18, 2015. Click on Mimi's name to learn more about attending.</span></span><br />
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<i>Some of the quilts that inspired Mimi Dietrich at the Baltimore Museum of Art back in 1982 are seen below.</i><br />
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The Quilters Hall of Fame likes to keep track of its Honorees and their families as the years roll by. However, sometimes the news is not so joyful. William R. Kelley, husband of TQHF 2008 Honoree Helen Longfield Kelley, passed away on February 14, 2015. <a href="http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/28269504.html">Honoree Helen Kelley preceded her husband in death quite unexpectedly s</a>hortly after she was inducted into the hall of fame in July 2008. Helen & Bill Kelley had made their home in Minnesota since 1962.<br />
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Bill Kelley will be remembered by his friends and family for his honorable, generous man committed to God, country, community, and his family. He was a graduate of Wayzata High School and Yale University and served as an Officer in the US Marine Corp. He was employed by General Electric for many years and later was a pioneer in computer consulting in Minneapolis. The Kelleys made North Como Presbyterian Church in Roseville their church home where they were very active. With his wife Helen, he was a longtime supporter of Minnesota Quilters and North Como Quilters. Bill enjoyed participating in the Northstar Storytelling Guild in Minnesota and had been active in Toastmasters. He enjoyed serving others and delivered Meals On Wheels until three weeks before his death. A memorial service was held to celebrate his life Friday, Feb. 27th at New Life Presbyterian Church in, Roseville, MN. </div>
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Helen Longfield Kelley was inspired to do needlework as a result of her mother’s fine craftsmanship and bought her first sewing machine, a Singer Featherweight, in 1946. Kelley
taught herself to quilt as an about-to-be bride. In 1972 she made a quilt for her daughter's wedding from quilt blocks garnered from friends around the world. The quilt ended up being featured in the <i>Minneapolis Tribune</i> and the news
coverage opened unexpected opportunities for Kelley to teach quilting in the Minneapolis community.
In 1978 <span style="color: black;">Kelley was a founding member of the <a href="http://www.mnquilt.org/">MinnesotaQuilt Guild</a> and its organizing president, 1980-82. Eventually the quilt guild numbered over 1500 members. An international</span> teaching career was born
soon after 1978. Criss-crossing America, Europe and New Zealand, Kelley spread
the "gospel of quilting" wherever she went with great enthusiasm and even humor. Her teaching talent led to seven
books and to an invitation to become a columnist in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quilters Newsletter Magazine in 1983</i>, the oldest continuously published
magazine dedicated to quiltmaking and quilt history. Her book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Every Quilt Tells a Story</i>, is a
compilation of her column “Loose Threads” and was such a success that a
second book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Joy of Quilting</i>, followed. Georgia Bonesteel wrote in 2007. "Many readers kept her articles right on their bed stand, just like a good novel."</div>
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Among the many honors that Kelley received throughout
her career in quilting and service to her community are: 1995 - Artist of
Distinction, Fiber/Metal Arts of Minnesota; 1998 - Minnesota Quilter of the
Year; in 1999 - Her quilt <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/qsos/interview.php?kid=14-31-6E">Renaissance</a></i> was selected
by a prestigious national committee of quiltmakers and quilt historians as one
of the <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Twentieth-Centurys-American-Celebrating-Quiltmaking/dp/B000SXMKUC/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_2072681322?ie=UTF8&%252AVersion%252A=1&%252Aentries%252A=0">100 best quilts of the 20th century</a>, a project organized by the
International Quilt Association; 2000 - Minnesota Textile Center’s Spun Gold
Award. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Kelley continued to lecture, teach, and exhibit
her work until her unexpected death in August 2008. A 30-year retrospective of her work was on exhibit in Marion,
Indiana, at The Quilters Hall of Fame during Celebration 2008. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Marie Webster must be smiling…present day hand applique champion Mimi Dietrich has been selected as the 2015 Honoree in the Quilters Hall of Fame. For twenty-five years Mimi has taken the fear out of learning to applique. No longer dreading the “A Word”, quilters discovered they could succeed through Mimi’s teaching and her best-selling books…. Applique came roaring back just as it had boomed in the mid-1800’s, and once again, out of Baltimore. </span></i><br />
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">— member of TQHF Selection Committee</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;">The Quilters Hall of Fame is pleased to announce that author and quilt teacher Mimi Dietrich will be the 2015 Inductee during the annula TQHF Celebration in Marion, Indiana, July 16-18, 2015.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;">Honors are not new to Mimi. The International Association of Professional Quilters named Mimi their 2013 Teacher of the Year! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;">Mimi has seventeen books to her name. The one that has probably touched the hearts of thousands of quilters and non-quilters alike is <i>Pink Ribbon Quilts: A Book Because of Breast Cancer</i>. That Patchwork Place has been the proud publisher of <a href="http://www.mimidietrich.com/book">all of Mimi's 17 books</a>. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Here are a few of her book covers from her website.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: large;">Karen B. Alexander</span></span></span></span><br />
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KarenQuilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12883452794136245078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880719975431234675.post-16475319993728820802014-05-09T16:05:00.003-07:002014-05-09T17:21:55.529-07:00Ruth B. McDowell - 2014 TQHF Inductee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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century quilt-revival steamed its way into the 21<sup>st</sup> century, some
were predicting that the interest in quilting would begin to finally wane. There
goes one more negative prognostication down the drain! Quilting is alive and
well in the 21<sup>st</sup> century with another new movement under way — The
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this wonderful art and craft continues to grow as well. It is hard sometimes
for new aficionados of this field to grasp just how far the field of quilt history
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preserving and documenting materials related to those selected to be inducted
into The Quilters Hall of Fame. As this body of information grows, it is
fascinating to cross-reference the paths taken by each Inductee and the influences that
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Our 45th
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967 with a B.S. in Art and Design.
Here is a young woman primed by education as well as natural proclivity to
respond to the world of design and color around her. What caused an
architectural student to steer her course toward quilting? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">As chance would have
it, among other influences of the times, it was another <a href="http://thequiltershalloffame.blogspot.com/2011/11/ruby-short-mckim-july-27-1891-july-1976.html">Honoree of the Hall of Fame’s work: Ruby Short McKim</a>. After reading McKim’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">101 Patchwork Patterns </i>in 1972, McDowell was particularly intrigued
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interesting, botanically recognizable and straightforward to piece with
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interest in herbs predated her interest in quilts by many years and she was an
active member of the Herb Society of America. After making a few traditional
quilts — but still thinking about those geometric McKim designs and having been
recently motivated by a <a href="http://www.nancycrow.com/HTML/barnworkshops.html">Nancy Crow workshop</a> (another <a href="http://quiltershalloffame.net/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Nancy_Crow.287184658.pdf">TQHF Inductee</a>) — McDowell found herself wandering
around her herb garden with graph paper and pencil in hand, looking for the
perfect plant/leaf adaptable to graph paper. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Her eye considered rosemary and
lavender and even lemon balm. Hmmm, none easily pieced or appliquéd. Then her
eye fell on the lowly celandine (Cheliodonium major). (See page 18 of McDowell's book "<i><a href="http://www.ruthbmcdowell.com/clients/rbm/store1.html">Art & Inspirations</a></i>" for a photo of this quilt.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">A sketch drawn, a
forty-inch square quilt, machine pieced with a single yellow flower appliquéd
in the center, emerged. “When it was finished, I felt certain this was the
beginning of what I was meant to do.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A series of herb quilts ensued. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">It would be tempting to say
at this point that “the rest is history”, but that robs us of the story of a
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The inspiration
for most of McDowell’s 530 quilts to date has come from nature. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Her
artistic style has shown consistent development and her unique approach to
pieced quilts has inspired ten books. McDowell’s 1982 “<i>Twelve Dancing
Princesses (Or The Shoes That Danced Themselves To Pieces)</i>” and “<i>The Yellow
Maple</i>” (1988) — which won the <a href="http://www.dairybarn.org/quilt/index.php?section=226&page=265">Quilt National 1989 People's Choice Award</a> — were included in the 20<sup>th</sup> Century’s Best American
Quilts, selected by a Blue Ribbon panel of the top foremost quilting experts of
the late 20<sup>th</sup> century from many different fields of quilting
expertise. </span></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><i>"There is a unique quality to a pieced quilt, quite different from an appliquéd, </i></span></o:p><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><i>fused or </i></span></o:p><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><i>painted quilt, which has to do with the way it is put together….</i></span></o:p><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><i>giving the </i></span></o:p><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><i>final quilt a structural integrity </i></span></o:p><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">that is very different from surface designs." </i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ruth McDowell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Since that first
quilt in 1972, McDowell has shared her exceptional design and teaching skills
all over the world and her award winning quilts are highly sought by
collectors. Her work has been exhibited in juried, invitational, and solo shows
nationally and in Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">McDowell wrote
her first book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pattern on Pattern</i>
(Quilt Digest Press) in 1991. Her 1996 book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Art
and Inspirations: Ruth B. McDowell</i> (C&T Publishing) was a retrospective
of Ruth’s career at that point and features full-color illustrations of 97 of
her quilts, many color details and drawings, and a fascinating text. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">As Ruth
refined her understanding of both the designing and teaching of pieced quilts,
she rewrote and further expanded her best-selling book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ruth B. McDowell's Piecing Workshop </i>and now offers on her web site several of her titles as print-on-demand and e-books.
<a href="http://www.ruthbmcdowell.com/">Visit her site by clicking here</a> to see many of her more recent quilts and some that are for
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quilters Newsletter Magazine, </i>Vol. 17, No. 6, June 1986 (Issue #183,
pg.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> 8)<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Quilters Newsletter Magazine, </i>Vol. 45, No. 2, April/May 2014 (<a href="http://www.quiltersnewsletter.com/articles/Meetin_Place_Ruth_McDowell_Quilters_Newsletter_April_May_2014">Issue #439, pg. 24-27</a><i>)</i><br />
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<a href="http://valleyfiberlife.squarespace.com/imported-data/more-on-ruth-mcdowell-quilts.html">Fiber Art Now: Fiber Arts & Textile Magazine</a><br />
http://valleyfiberlife.squarespace.com/imported-data/more-on-ruth-mcdowell-quilts.html<br />
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<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/hot4art/ruth-mcdowell-quilts/">Click here to see more McDowell quilts</a> - http://www.pinterest.com/hot4art/ruth-mcdowell-quilts/</div>
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The late 20th century quilt revival brought forth women entrepreneurs in the 1970s and early 80s who succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest expectations at the time, theirs included perhaps. Several TQHF Honorees come to mind, the latest being Meredith Schroeder of Paducah, Kentucky.<br />
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Not all who have impacted the world of quilting internationally grew up quilting. That may come as a surprise to some. Meredith Schroeder, co-founder of The National Quilt Museum (formerly the Museum of the American Quilter’s Society) and the 2013 Inductee into The Quilters Hall of Fame, had no quilts in her family home as she was growing up and in her youth doesn’t even recall seeing anyone actually making a quilt.<br />
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“My first exposure to quilts probably came through my husband’s grandmother who was from Princeton, Indiana,” she related in a recent interview. “I actually grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania until I was three or four, then Philadelphia. We moved to Paducah when I was 15 and I graduated from high school in Paducah. My father, a construction engineer, helped build a large industrial chemical plant here in this area.”<br />
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The family into which Meredith married included many avid antique hunters. After marriage, Bill and Meredith often conducted antique shows for schools as fundraisers, eventually founding Collector Books, Inc. publishing collectors’ price guides. Due to husband Bill’s interest in antique embossed mason jars, mason jars became the focus of their first collector’s guide in 1973. Many more antique guides followed.<br />
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In the fall of 1983, after some 10 years in the publishing business, the Schroeders attended their first NQA (National Quilting Association) quilt show in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. They admired what they saw but were surprised to discover that only ribbons were awarded, not monetary prizes. They both felt that quilters needed to be recognized with monetary awards, not just ribbons. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Published by American Quilter's Society 1992</i></td></tr>
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It became apparent to them very quickly that quilt books were selling well and were a natural fit with what they were already publishing. Their first quilt book, Collecting Quilts, by Cathy Florence, was an enormous success and helped launch the highly popular new division of their growing publishing company.<br />
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Meanwhile, the Schroeders continued to attend quilt shows after that first NQA show. In fact, Meredith related “you could say Bill inadvertently began our quilt collection as a result of those trips. Being a hunter, Bill liked a particular duck quilt he saw.” The $1,000 price tag initially shocked them. But they did purchase it, eventually. <br />
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The Schroeder children were grown at this point. But after that first trip to Bell Buckle, members of the family began to go with them to quilt shows with the specific assignment of helping them figure out what it might take to produce such a show themselves. “Ours was a family business. We already knew how to work together; so we just started brainstorming,” Meredith warmly related. “Eventually we set a time line for starting the show. At that time, Paducah had just built a new Executive Inn with 400 bedrooms and a convention meeting center. Paducah had never had anything of that size before, so we decided we could actually do this in Paducah after all.”<br />
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<b>The First AQS Quilt Show</b></div>
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The first Paducah AQS quilt show was 1985. It’s still going strong today and has expanded to other cities as well. In that first year, the Schroeders told the Executive Inn’s meeting planners to expect 5,000 people. The Executive Director was dubious, to say the least, but 5,000 people did indeed show up! The same Director told them later that he had expected “200 blue-haired ladies.” Meredith and I both chuckled at this point in the interview at how difficult it has been for the public to shake that iconic image that “quilters are little old gray-haired ladies”. They may indeed grow gray hair after years and years of quilting, but most don’t start out old, we both agreed!<br />
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As the organizing of that first show began, Meredith would eventually enlist the help of Annette Riddle, Marty Bowne, and Klaudeen Hansen. Meredith and daughter Lynn worked on the educational angle, and education remains a favorite area for Meredith today. Eventually Marty Bowne would become editor of the American Quilter magazine and guide the magazine for almost 10 years.<br />
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<b>A First in Quilt Show Prize Money</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2002 Best of Show Winner with Meredith Schroeder far left.</td></tr>
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Offering cash awards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, Best in Show and Best Handwork was a goal from day one. “We awarded $25,000 in the first year and provided the awards money ourselves,” Schroeder thoughtfully noted. “We were absolutely the first people to offer cash awards at this level. Within a couple of years we were able to raise the money for the awards from other sponsors and offer an even wider variety of awards. We have given away over $3 million in prize money, directly to quilters, since we began AQS.”<br />
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The biggest challenge has always been rooms and space. “There really was no other more humongous challenge”, Meredith related. As the show developed and expanded to five days, the number of attendees kept multiplying until Paducah ran out of hotel rooms. “This is not a problem most convention planners have to deal with. But we enjoyed working together as a family and as a team in spite of that. Although I feel I’m a delegator by nature, I also go around and make sure things get done.”<br />
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<b>A Community Pitches In</b></div>
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As the numbers increased, the options for housing got more and more creative as they started busing people in from nearby cities or housing people in private homes in Paducah. The Visitors’ Bureau itself eventually set up a “Bed & Breakfast” network, including church people. “Those who participated were free to charge, of course,” Meredith related, “but most of them wound up donating the money to the Symphony or to their churches.”<br />
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Just how does a community of this size feed thousands of people? Again, the options got creative. In one instance, four different churches chose to set up meals during the annual Big Event so that quilters had a choice between local restaurants or simple but nutritious meal where they could sit and relax for as long as they liked. Today we have many food vendors outside the convention center offering everything from strawberry short cake to turkey legs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Published by American Quilter's Society 1990</i></td></tr>
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The quilters also helped to transform downtown Paducah: “For the first few years, downtown was pretty bleak, so the money the influx of thousands of quilters brought in helped bring about renovations in Paducah. And more hotels eventually were built on the edge of the city.”<br />
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In fact, several years down the road, the city would eventually invest in a 40,000 square foot poured concrete floor over which a huge tent is raised each year, with the all important “necessaries” just outside the back door. Today this pavilion has added to the show’s exhibit space, though there are still many satellite exhibit sites scattered about the city. The vendor's mall grew steadily each year as well, offering a vast world of tools, fabrics, patterns, and the ever changing techniques & embellishments.<br />
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Eventually the owners tore down the Executive Inn. I guess we “wore them out,” Meredith chuckled. “The downtown area is suffering from fewer tourists as a result. We’re working on getting a replacement hotel. It’s a big challenge. There aren’t a lot of people investing in hotels in smaller-population cities these days.”<br />
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<b>The Dream – The Museum</b></div>
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When asked about the building of the museum, Schroeder was quick to answer: “The idea for the museum was present from the beginning.” In other words, from that first year, the Schroeders offered the winners a choice. They could keep their winning quilt or they could take the cash award. If they took the cash, the quilt was added to the growing museum collection. “There are only four best of show quilts over the almost-30 years that we do not have in the collection,” Meredith shared. “One quilter won twice and chose to keep both of her quilts, but most of the winners accepted the cash” and the prestige of having their quilt in the collection.<br />
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Some might romanticize the owning and running of a quilt business, I suggested, asking her: Do you think running a quilt-related business is any different from running any other business? “Yes and no”, Meredith answered, chuckling. “There are a lot of advantages and a lot of drawbacks. This is a 24/7 job. Everybody in the family contributed ideas, so working together as a family is a big reward. We’d go on “vacation” and come back with all kinds of new ideas, since we never really leave the job. Mostly we’d talk and read a lot about business whenever we left Paducah.”<br />
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There were setbacks along the way: “In 1996, our house burned during the show. We were taking down quilts on Sunday night and the fire chief called. There was a big electrical storm and lightning struck our home. One year my mother died right before the show opened, and last year (2011) we had a flood, so we could not get to the convention center. It was completely closed off to us by the large floodgates. That Sunday night, we moved everything from the convention center to the pavilion and began looking for somewhere to have classes, vendors and some exhibits. We found empty buildings at the mall for vendors and used a church for the classes and exhibits. They had to add electrical wiring to the buildings at the mall. It took all night long, yet we were able to open on time the next morning. In spite of it being Easter Sunday, the churches gave us tours of their buildings and worked with us all day, helping us to determine possible exhibition spaces and teaching spaces. It was pouring rain all day. We had to limit vendors to one booth, not two. Some vendors were upset, but we had no choice but to let the show go on in a way that could include all vendors.”<br />
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<b>Big Business and Quilts</b></div>
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Some in the quilt world have questioned the “marriage” of “big business” and the “old community tradition” of quilting. But is the idea of “big business” really new in the quilt world? After all, direct-mail marketing of quilt patterns via newspaper ads and sale of fabric and quilt kits that arose from that have been around for at least 100 years. However, time and technology have definitely brought more changes to the world of quilting.<br />
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When asked if she was now seeing more male influences in the quilt business world today, compared to 15-20 years ago, Schroeder replied “I see the influence of men most dominant in the mechanical side, the technology, the sewing machines and other tools - the machines that do the programmed sewing. I think it takes both men and women to run a successful quilt business. And I don’t have any problem with male ‘celebrities’ in the business. It just brings more attention to quilting, which is a good thing for the industry.”<br />
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“Other changes have occurred,” she added. “The fabric industry has exploded, plus the social media on the Internet. Being from a different era, I find the social media amazing, but it’s positive that people want to find new ways to communicate. The bottom line is to make communication easier and faster, and to make more information available. If you’re the least bit interested, you can find whatever you want. And yes, we’re printing e-books and preparing manuscripts for iPads. We’re also really excited about our new fiction series by Ann Hazelwood*, which has been well received.”<br />
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<b>The Emergence of The Modern Quilt Guild</b></div>
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When asked about the new “Modern Quilt Guild” movement and just what it is they want, Schroeder’s insightful reply was, “The new modern quilt movement is spectacular. I’m sure they will listen to a few ideas from our older quilters but they don’t necessarily want to be restricted by some of the rules that we have placed on people, to do things a certain way. They want to create beauty without too many rules. Today’s quilts are covered with quilting, but my perception is that the modern quilters are more interested in design, not so much the “quilting” elements. We (AQS) will be the sponsor for the ‘best of show’ this February at the first international gathering of the Modern Quilt Guild to be held in Austin. I will be there and I am looking forward to it. Each event has its own personality. Houston is more of a market, where ours is more of a ‘show,’ with the quilts on center stage. The Modern Quilt Guild will make their own mark as well.”<br />
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As to the future of quilting, Schroeder concluded, “The financial problems in our country may cause a cutback on hobby spending or discretionary spending; but I feel these hobbies are passions and people will find a way to feed their passions, even in difficult times.”<br />
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As Meredith Schroeder stands at this pivotal point in her journey, she looks back and looks forward with thanks and excitement at the new adventures ahead. “It’s been a fantastic journey, with lots of twists and turns along the way. It’s nothing I would have imagined when I graduated from high school. When I married and had three little kids running around, and Bill was working in a chemical plant, I never would have imagined that we would be running international quilting shows from Paducah. I give the Lord tribute, since I believe He guides our steps.” <br />
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*Ann Hazelwood has written several books for the American Quilter’s Society including “100 Things You Need to Know If You Own a Quilt,” “100 Tips from Award-winning Quilters” and “100 Sweet Treats by and for Quilters.” “The Basement Quilt” is her first work of fiction.<br />
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The following article written by Karen Alexander was first published in the Spring1999 edition of The Quilters Hall of Fame newsletter as a special committee prepared about one-fourth of Cuesta Benberry's enormous quilt block collection for exhibition. Benberry was interviewed for this article by phone in February 1999.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Quilters Hall of Fame would surely not exist today were it not for all the faithful volunteers, especially all those in Marion, Indiana. The quilters of Indiana and the residents of Marion, Indiana have faithfully given of time and talent since Founder Hazel Carter separated QHF from The Continental Congress in Arlington, Virginia, created a separate entity called The Quilters Hall of Fame, and moved it to Indiana in 1992. <a href="http://quiltershalloffame.net/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Hazel_Carter.24972959.pdf">Click here</a> to read that whole story.</span></div>
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The thousands of guests from around the world who each year visit Quilt House, home to the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, now look forward to seeing even more inside thanks to planned expansion of the museum.<br /><br />The Robert and Ardis James Foundation has made a $7 million gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation’s current Campaign for Nebraska for expansion of Quilt House on East Campus.<br /><br />The expansion will involve an addition on the west side of the building of about 12,400 square feet and will feature new gallery space for more exhibitions as well as additional room for quilt collection storage and care, education and museum operations.<br /><br />About his gift and continued investment, Robert James said Quilt House is dedicated to the people of Nebraska, to quilt lovers and to those around the world who have helped recognize quilts as true art.<br /><br />“It is helping the world comprehend a previously underappreciated form of art,” James said. “That’s what it’s done, and that’s what Ardis and I always had in mind.”<br /><br />In addition to funding the expansion, the Robert and Ardis James Foundation donated $1 million to establish a permanent endowment at the University of Nebraska Foundation. Annual net income from the endowment will be used to provide a stipend to the executive director of Quilt House for salary, research or program support. The director will be known as the Ardis James Executive Director of Quilt House.<br /><br />“Because of the vision and generosity of Bob and Ardis James, our university has become the most important place for the scholarly study, research and curated exhibition of quilts as an international art form,” Chancellor Harvey Perlman said. “We are extremely grateful for their support of Quilt House over the years and for making another important investment.”<br /><br />Pat Crews, founding director of Quilt House, said the public’s interest in the museum, its exhibitions, educational offerings and unique mission continues to grow.<br /><br />“Our guests have loved what they’ve been able to experience and learn here, but they’re eager to see even more,” Crews said. “With the new expansion, we’ll have additional room for our popular exhibitions as well as increased space for our diverse collections and research. We cannot thank the James family enough for making this possible.”<br /><br />University officials said the building expansion will take place once architectural studies and designs are finalized later this year and construction bids are complete.<br /><br />Quilt House opened its current 37,000-square-foot building in 2008 with three exhibition galleries and state-of-the-art textiles storage as an international focal point for the study, conservation and exhibition of quilts. Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York, with Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture of Omaha, designed the building. The same architects will design the new addition.<br /><br />The $12 million facility was funded with more than 260 contributions to the University of Nebraska Foundation, including a leadership gift from the Robert and Ardis James Foundation. More than 130 quilt guilds, as well as quilt organizations in six other countries, provided gifts toward the building campaign.<br /><br />The International Quilt Study Center within Quilt House was founded in 1997 when Nebraska natives Ardis and Robert James began donating their extensive quilt collection and have since donated more than 1,000 quilts.<br /><br />Ardis M. Butler James grew up in Lincoln and Omaha and married Robert G. James of Ord in 1949. They raised three children, Robert Jr., Catherine and Ralph, and made their home in Chappaqua, N.Y. Ardis James died on July 7, 2011.<br /><br />Quilt House and the quilt center, whose academic home is the Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design in the College of Education and Human Sciences, offers the only academic program of its kind dedicated to inspiring an understanding of the cultural and artistic significance of quilts and promoting the scholarly study and research of global quilt-making traditions. It holds the largest publicly owned collection of more than 3,500 quilts and is the most diverse collection in existence with representative quilts from more than 24 countries. For more information, visit quiltstudy.org.<br /><br />The University of Nebraska Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization raising private gifts to support the University of Nebraska. In 2012, donors provided $165 million for scholarships, medical and other research, academic programs, faculty and buildings. All foundation funds are donor designated. The foundation’s comprehensive fundraising campaign, the Campaign for Nebraska, has raised more than $1.2 billion and concludes in 2014. For more information, visit campaignfornebraska.org.<br /><br />— Robb Crouch, University of Nebraska Foundation</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Joyce Gross –editor, publisher, researcher, founder and writer of <i>Quilter’s Journal</i>– was the 1996 Quilters Hall of Fame Inductee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It seems fitting that we should let Cuesta Benberry– her comrade in arms when it came to quilt research– say a few words about Joyce at her passing Decem<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">be</span>r 24th. Theirs was a friendship that probably has no peer in the late 20th century quilt revival.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> (above) Panelists Joyce Gross, Cuesta Benberry (1983 TQHF Inductee) and Barbara Brackman (2001 TQHF Inductee) at the July 2004 Grand Opening of The Quilters <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">H</span></span>all of Fame in Marion, Indiana.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You've probably read in various quilt magazines that
"the legendary Joyce Gross" is to be a featured speaker at the 16th
annual seminar of the American Quilt Study Group. Is the term "legendary
Joyce Gross" simply a complimentary or flattering designation, or is it,
indeed, based on factual evidence? What makes a person a legend? Among the numerous
attributes that characterize a legend, two of the most significant ones are
longevity and the performance of a unique feat, or a series of extraordinary
achievements in a particular field of endeavor. As to longevity, one rarely
hears of an overnight legend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Approximately 25 years ago Joyce Gross began the long
journey that results in her present position of prominence in today's quilt
world. In the early 197<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">0</span>'s Joyce and a small group of friends in Marin County,
California (including the late Sally Garoutte the 1994 QHF Honoree), formed an
organization: the Mill Valley Quilt Authority. Although the title was a
humorous, a sort of tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the famous Tennessee Valley
authority name, these women were not playful dilettantes. Instead they were the
cutting edge of the burgeoning nationwide quilt movement of that time. In fact,
their "Patch in Time" quilt exhibition held in 1973 is today regarded
as a landmark event on the West Coast. Joyce assembled an array of noteworthy quilts,
such as The Matterhorn, the Hardman quilt, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">R</span>ose Kretsinger's quilts, Charlotte
Jane Whitehill's quilts that many persons had never heard of. A whole series of
"Patch in Time" exhibitions followed. Joyce later had special affairs
honoring Berthe Stenge (QHF 1980 Honoree) and a memorable one celebrating the
works of Pine Eisefeller that was graced by the presence of this outstanding
quilt maker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During those years Joyce participated in a weekly radio
broadcast entitled “California Weekend” over Station KGO, San Francisco, in
which she reported on various quilt activities in the bay area and in the quilt
world at large.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1977, when Joyce became editor and publisher of <i>Quilters
Journal</i>, she determined that her magazine would be unlike any other quilt
periodical then being published. She wanted the contents to be solely devoted
to quilt history, and to reflect the findings contained from quilt research
conducted by herself and other scholars equally involved in this phase of quilt
work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When in 1979, under the sponsorship by Santa Rosa Quilt
Guild, Joyce organized the first national quilt contest ever held on the West
coast, she demonstrated two of her strong points: Joyce is an innovative
thinker and an initiator of unique quilt projects. Quilt entries from all over
the United States were submitted for this contest, as well as for a second one
she organized in 1982.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When Sally Garoutte conceived the idea of holding the first
quilt research seminar that later developed into the American Quilt Study
Group, she solicited the opinions and input from a very few of her close
friends whose judgment she valued. Joyce was one of those friends. She
supported and cooperated fully with Sally to bring the proposal to fruition.
And so Joyce was not only a charter member of AQSG, but she should also be
considered a founder, along with Sally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Since 1983, Joyce has held the highly successful annual <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">week-long</span> “Quilt Retreat-California Style” at Point Bonita. One can tell just
how successful this event is, for each year there is a waiting list of people
hoping that someone who has already signed on to attend will drop out and her
place can be filled from the waiting list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When the California state quilt documentation effort began,
Joyce promoted the idea, and this was another example of her penchant for
initiating projects that frequently have lasting value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1993, she spearheaded another project when a small, group
of women assembled at her home and studio in Petaluma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the women had accumulated huge
amounts of quilt archival materials. Foremost on their agenda was to devise a
plan to make the quilt information in their collections easily accessible.
Archival collections have limited value when uncatalogued. Joyce had already
begun to index her own collection, and has thousand and thousands of catalogue
cards in her files. From this meeting the Quilt Archivists Club was formed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most recently [1995] it was announced that Joyce is the 1996
nominee to the Quilters hall of Fame. She will be inducted in July 1996 in
Marion, Indiana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have recited some of Joyce’s accomplishments in order to
answer one question. How did Joyce Gross come to be termed a legendary quilt
figure? Just as the TV commercial states, “She did it the old fashioned way.
SHE EARNED IT!!!”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span> </span></div>
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Read what Xenia Cord – folklorist, quilt historian and Past President of the American Quilt Study Group – wrote about the above quilt "Gross Stuff" that was made to honor Joyce Gross in 1998. The quilt was inspired by a very unusual donation Joyce made to the AQSG Seminar Auction in 1997 <u>and</u> the accompanying very humorous letter Joyce sent along with that donation. The quilt honors Joyce's passion for collecting quilt ephemera, which she simply referred to as "stuff", and is re-auctioned every year to honor Joyce and to raise funds for AQSG at the same time. C<a href="http://www.americanquiltstudygroup.org/seminar.asp">lick here</a> to read the story. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The photo below was taken in 2005 in Houston, Texas at the
International Quilt Festival at which Joyce Gross was honored by a
special exhibit of <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">selected</span> quilts from her collection. </span></div>
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wearing her Quilters Hall of Fame Honoree medallion with her daughter Vicki kneeling next to her. Back row: Karen Alexander (Pres of The Quilters Hall of Fame 2005-2008), Yvonne Porcella, Karey Bresenhan, and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes. </span><br />
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A Tribute to Joyce from Karey Bresenhan:<br />
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The world of quilt history has lost one of its most
influential figures—Joyce Gross. Joyce died on Christmas Eve, very peacefully,
after a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>day of seeing family, friends, and even her beloved dog.
There will be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a memorial service for her on January 27 at Point Bonita,
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a painstaking, labor-intensive quilt research project
resulted in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rooms full of boxes of her notes, all cross-indexed, along
with the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>original printed documentation: more than 1000 quilt books,
vast<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>assortments of periodicals ranging back to the early 20th
century,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ephemera of all kinds, including rare fabric samples. She
had a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>library of original documents that would be almost
impossible to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>assemble today. Luckily the Briscoe Center for American
History at the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>University of Texas was able to acquire this incredible body
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>historical reference materials, along with an important part
of her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>quilt collection which included examples by such important
quiltmakers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as Bertha Stenge, Pine Eisfeller, Florence Peto, and Dr.
Jeannette<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Throckmorton. She was a major force in early quilt research
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>documentation.</div>
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Co-founder, Texas Quilt Museum</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Joyce Gross with <i>The Garden</i> by Pine Hawkes Eisfeller (1938)<br />taken at the International Quilt Festival Oct 2005. <br />This quilt now resides at the</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.cah.utexas.edu/news/press_release.php?press=press_jgross">Briscoe Center for American History</a> <br />at the University of Texas Austin.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(photo by Karen B. Alexander)</span></td></tr>
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(1) <a href="http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/treasures/main.php?id=5-16-5">video interview</a> done by the Alliance for American Quilts http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/treasures/main.php?id=5-16-5</div>
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(2) <a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/newsletters.php/newsletters_id/1030">The Quilt Show</a><br />
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(3) University of Texas <a href="http://www.cah.utexas.edu/news/press_release.php?press=press_jgross">Press Release about the Joyce Gross collection</a> http://www.cah.utexas.edu/news/press_release.php?press=press_jgross</div>
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(4) <a href="http://www.chron.com/life/article/Quilt-exhibits-highlight-the-craft-1681257.php">News article</a> about the Joyce Gross collection<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">as the new headquarters of The Quilters Hall of Fame in 2004. From L-R seated </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">in the front row are TQHF Inductees: Donna Wilder, Jean Ray Laury, Karey Bresenhan, </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>It is with sadness that I update the biography of a dear friend for Virginia Avery passed away this morning, Thursday, September 6, 2012, three weeks shy of her 100th birthday. With but a very few changes, here is what I wrote about Jinny, as her friends and students called her, when she was inducted into The Quilters Hall of Fame in July 2006 in Marion, Indiana.</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Born Virginia Cox </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">September 29, 1912 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">in Greenwood, Indiana, Virginia Avery graduated from DePauw
University with a degree in English Composition and went to work at
Indianapolis News. She would soon marry, move to New York and raise four
children. In New York she pursued both her love of fabrics and clothing as well
as her love of jazz. This talented renaissance woman showed a very early
interest in what would become a life-long passion - materials and fabrics,
colors and movement. "We are all surrounded by designs every day of our
lives," is her answer to where her inspiration came from. "We just
have to learn to open our eyes and see."</span></span></div>
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self-taught in clothing construction, Avery made her first dress at age 12 not
realizing one was supposed to use a pattern. In the early 60s, Avery approached
two fabric shops and landed herself two clothing-construction teaching jobs.
Around that same time she realized quilting was beginning to make a comeback.
Although she had never made a quilt, she thought of them as simply another form
of sewing. It never occurred to her that she couldn't teach quilting just because she had never made one yet. With some
family quilts as a guide, and a couple of magazine articles, she gave herself a
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her career. Not only were quilts the major topic, but patchwork clothes were very much in evidence, giving her the confidence to begin teaching clothing classes along with quilting classes. </span></div>
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an accomplished jazz pianist, Avery played with the King Street Stompers
for more than fifty years. This lively dedicated group of musicians once had the honor of playing on the Today Show and played for the United Nation's Delegates, as
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for are: "Don't Shoot the Piano Player She's Doing the Best She Can,"
on the cover of Wonderful Wearables, A Celebration of Creative Clothing
"(Collector Books, 1991); Midriff Lilies, which is the reverse side of
"Don't Shoot the Piano Player She's Doing the Best She Can;" and
Purple Passion on the cover of Quilts to Wear (Scribner, 1982). Her outfit for
Fairfield Fashion Show's 10th anniversary was "There'll Be a Hot Time in
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self-affirming, creative learning environment, richly deserving being named one
of the 1000 most influential women of the 1990s by <i>Mirabella</i> magazine; selected
as the 3rd recipient of the 1996 Silver Star Award for Lifetime Achievement by
the International Quilt Festival. She richly earned her selection as the 36th Honoree
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public </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">through
the retrospective "Virginia Avery: A Flair for Life." In addition she performed in a lively jazz jam session at the Community School of
the Arts the night of July 15th. Her official induction took place Saturday,
July 16, 2006, in Marion, Indiana amidst heart-felt testimonies, as well as tears and
laughter, among her many friends and 17 family members present. </span></span></div>
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The salute to our 2012 Inductee Eleanor Burns continues. Each block entered in the contest has been inspired by one of Eleanor Burns patterns.<br />
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<b>Help Keep the Doors of The Quilters Hall of Fame Open</b></div>
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Hope your fingers are busy stitching an entry for The Quilters Hall of Fame's salute to Eleanor Burns who will be inducted during Celebration 2012 in July in Marion, Indiana! (<a href="http://quiltershalloffame.net/celebration">Click here</a> for Registration information.)<br />
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You have until June 30 to get your entry in and it doesn't have to be very large -- only 24"x24" (61cm x 61cm). In 2009 the Baltimore Applique Society made and auctioned over 50 small quilts to help keep the doors of The Quilters Hall of Fame/Marie Webster House open raising almost $6,000 for TQHF. You can see all of those entries from 2009 by <a href="http://www.baltimoreapplique.com/auction.html">clicking here</a> to go to the BAS website. The 2009 effort was the 2nd time the BAS had made quilts as a fund raiser for TQHF. Their first gift of a fund raising quilt was in 2000 when they reproduced two copies of Marie Webster's <a href="http://www.baltimoreapplique.com/wayside.html">Wayside Roses</a> pattern.<br />
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if we would be willing to provide quilts from our collection to exhibit in the
Marie Webster House for The Quilters Hall of Fame, we did not hesitate to jump
at the opportunity. We had attended The Quilters Hall of Fame Celebration in
July 2011 to witness the induction of Ardis and Robert James. During the
celebration we met so many wonderful people who have the same passion of
sharing the history of quilts and quilt making; enjoying the works of art from
past generations and having the quilts “talk to you”.</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: black;">Our first
exhibit was held at the Kutztown Historical Society in Berks County,
Pennsylvania in May of 2009. “Pennsylvania Quilt Treasures: The Art of the
Needle” included 32 of our finest Pennsylvania quilts from the 1800’s. Since
then we have had the opportunity to purchase additional early quilts from the
Berks County area. The quilts chosen for this particular exhibit have not been
exhibited before and will showcase the glorious colors of the Pennsylvania
Germans in the late 1800’s. Their love of color is exhibited in the bright,
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lived our entire lives in “Pennsyvania Dutch Country” and are thankful for the
opportunity to share some of our local history during The Art of the Needle:
Quilts from the Collection of Arlan and Pat Christ exhibit. Please enjoy this
exhibit as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you.</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</div>KarenQuilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12883452794136245078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880719975431234675.post-16284677408640986962012-01-16T11:32:00.000-08:002020-04-17T11:53:12.158-07:00Baltimore Applique - William R. Dunton<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Quilt Collector, Author, Psychiatrist<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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It’s hard to realize just how many
years have passed since I saw my first exhibit of Baltimore Album Quilts at the
Baltimore Museum of Art in the early 80s. I was new to quilting at the time but
loved appliqué and was stunned by these beauties and intrigued by their
history. I would soon learn that
the first person to research and document this particular style of quilt was
male and among the first 5 people inducted into <a href="http://www.quiltershalloffame.net/honorees.html">The Quilters Hall of Fame</a> in 1979 – Dr. William Rush Dunton of Baltimore.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">1997.007.0319, International Quilt Study Center, UNL,
www.quiltstudy.org. To access more traditional Baltimore Album quilts in the IQSC collection, see end of
article.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Born in Pennsylvania in 1868, Dr.
William R. Dunton was psychiatrist at Sheppard-Pratt Asylum in Baltimore for
many years in the early part of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, had a long
association with Johns Hopkins University as an instructor in psychiatry and
was a founding member of three professional societies within his field.<br />
Bunnie
Jordan’s chapter on Dunton in the book “The Quilters Hall of Fame” goes into
interesting detail about his professional career as a psychiatrist as well as
an occupational therapist. In fact, he wrote the first complete textbook on
occupational therapy and is often called the “father of occupational therapy”. How
very appropriate that the “father” of occupational therapy would include quilting
from the very beginning of his exploration of the benefits of occupational
therapy! Today many millions of women (and men) know of quilting’s many
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Dunton is said to have been
influenced by his mother’s love of needlework for in 1877, the year of its
founding, she was an early pupil at the Philadelphia School of Art Needlework. However,
he acknowledges in the introduction to his book “Old Quilts” that he can recall
no quilts in his home as a boy and speculates “their making was too
unfashionable in large cities to interest many during the 1870s.” However, much
later in life when he came across a long forgotten box in his own closet, he
wrote, “a tea box of diamonds of
colored silks in which I recognize some of my childhood neckties….and I believe
I assisted in cutting these.”</div>
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Dunton credits TQHF Honoree Marie
Webster’s 1915 book “Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them” with awakening
his interests in documenting and recording early quilts and their history,
although he writes, “it seems that I must have had an interest <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">before</i> that time or I should not have
wanted to read the book.” He also quickly realized that the process of
selecting color and pattern, as well as the social interaction that quilts
traditionally engendered, would be of great benefit to his “nervous” patients. As
a psychiatrist, he thought his female patients could benefit from the quiet
calming influence of needlework as well as the sense of accomplishment it
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Although Dunton did not focus exclusively
on needlework as a fitting form of occupational therapy for his patients,
quilts took on a special meaning for him personally. Or, more specifically, the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">documentation</i> and collecting of quilts
took on new meaning for him and quickly became one of his many personal interests
after he fell under their spell and began a correspondence with Marie Webster,
soon after her book was published in 1915. Eventually he would correspond with
a small cadre of quilt scholars who undoubtedly encouraged him to publish his
own book.<br />
Unable to find a publisher willing to take on his book, Dunton
self-published 2,000 copies. Every book is hand-numbered and today copies
command a hefty price in the market place, if you can even find one.</div>
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From our perspective today, we find
it rather amazing that any male, but perhaps especially a psychiatrist, would
be planning and executing a quilt exhibit in 1916. But on September 5, 1916,
when Dunton held his first quilt exhibit for his patients, he would in fact exhibit
50 quilts — quilts borrowed from the families of patients and friends, as well
as three loaned by Marie Webster herself.
Dunton would go on to curate three quilt exhibits for the Baltimore
Museum of Art as well, with the 1944 exhibit featuring the quilts that had come
to intrigue him the most —Baltimore Album quilts. </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">*Members of the Baltimore
Appliqué Society made tracings of the original Mary Mannakee quilt that resides
in the collection of the Daughters of the American Revolution and then made a
reproduction quilt which was raffled to raise money for the DAR. Marylou McDonald,
Past President of the BAS, and her stitch group, called Friends from the Heart,
also decided to exchange blocks made from these tracings. Marylou made one
block (top row, far right) and the borders. In early 2002, the finished quilt
top was sent to a quilter in Kentucky to hand quilt. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Dunton is responsible more than any other early quilt historian for documenting quilts that had a special
affiliation with the Baltimore area. His groundwork research on this style
helped later quilt historians trace the influence of the Baltimore-style as it
evolved and made its way into other regions. Plus, Dunton's research covered much more than just this one style.</div>
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Dunton was a meticulous record
keeper and archivist. In late 50s to early 60s his extensive collection of research
materials and photographs was donated to the <a href="http://www.artbma.org/collection/overview/decorative.html">Baltimore Museum of Art</a>.
The <a href="http://www.baltimoreapplique.com/index.htm">Baltimore Applique Society</a>,
founded in 1993, raised $5,600 in 1997 towards stabilizing the Dunton papers so
that they could be made available to researchers. This passionate group of
appliqué-lovers and quilt historians continues to support the preservation of the
Dunton archival material as well as the Baltimore Album quilts in more than one
museum collection.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000090; font-size: 10pt;">Beginning at
top: Dunton article from TQHF Honoree book, Katzenberg book, AQSG’s Uncoverings
1994, Dunton book bearing his signature.
Photo courtesy of Karen Alexander.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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In 1980 Dena Katzenberg created an
exhibit of 50 Baltimore Album quilts and produced a thoroughly researched
catalogue. Out of print very quickly, <a href="http://www.bonanza.com/listings/Baltimore-Album-Quilts-Exhibition-Catalog-Dena-S-Katzenberg/17966222">the catalogue</a> continues to command a high price.<br />
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The point I am making
is that the exhibit traveled and created such a national awareness of Baltimore
Applique quilts at the time that prices soared, bringing more and more quilts
out of family closets. The end result — more and more of the old beauties began to be
documented. </div>
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Jennifer Goldsborough’s
presentation at the <a href="http://www.americanquiltstudygroup.org/">1994 AQSG seminar</a> in Birmingham, AL, shed additional new light on this genre of quilt and
is well worth studying. The Baltimore Album style continues to enjoy a strong
resurgence among quiltmakers today thanks to the many new teachers.<br />
Elly
Sienkiewicz of Maryland, with her many books, is perhaps the most well known. Somewhere
in the depths of all my quilt history files, I have a photo of Elly from the
early 1980s in our guest room, cuddled under one of her spectacular appliqué
quilts that featured her daughter.</div>
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Speaking of early quilt historians,
Dunton mentions the work of five women — in addition to Marie Webster — who
furthered his own education about quilts and suggested these authors could do
the same for his readers: Florence Peto, focus of the first article in this
series; Ruth Finley, focus of the 2<sup>nd</sup> article in this series
article; plus Ruby McKim, Carrie Hall, and Rose Kretsinger, who will be covered
in future articles. Peto was in touch with Carrie Hall and Rose Kretsinger,
though I am unaware if Dunton ever had direct contact with these last two
Honorees.</div>
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Be sure to keep up with the doings
at <a href="http://thequiltershalloffame.blogspot.com/">The Quilters Hall of Fame</a> here at the blog or the TQHF <a href="http://www.quiltershalloffame.net/">website</a>. Feel free to contact me
<karenquilt gmail.com="">with any questions you may have.</karenquilt></div>
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Meanwhile, keep those needles
flying and spread the word about how quilts enrich your life and the life of
our communities!</div>
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Karen Alexander</div>
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Be sure to visit the <a href="http://www.quiltstudy.org/discover/search.html">International Quilt Study Center’s Collections Database </a>
to see more Baltimore Album quilts. There are several ways to query the
database and how one does it determines, of course, the results. If you enter
only "album" as pattern or key word, you will get ALL album quilts,
not just Baltimore. If you enter "Baltimore" in keyword you get only
the Baltimore Albums plus other quilts with Baltimore origins. The latter does
give you fewer, and does include the Baltimore Albums. The images retrieved by
the Collections Database are low resolution, not "zoomable". </div>
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The second way to see the IQSC
quilts is via <a href="http://archive.secondstory.com/project/iqsc-collection-explorer">Quilt Explorer</a>. Give it a few seconds to load. There are fewer quilts in this area; however, they are all high resolution,
therefore you may zoom in for great details. If you search by
"Style/Type" and select Baltimore Album, there are three gorgeous
quilts in high res. Note that when you start to zoom in on one of these images
you may drag the image around with your mouse to see all parts of the quilt
close-up, a dandy little feature. </div>
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<a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/">The Quilt Index</a>, sponsored
by the Alliance for American Quilts, is another great place to see Baltimore
Album quilts and their derivatives and you search it in a very similar way as
the IQSC’s data base. <br />
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UPDATE: April 2020 - Here is an <a href="https://www.mdhs.org/exhibitions/wild-and-untamed">exhibit</a> to watch for in May 2020 of Dunton's discovery of Baltimore album quilts.<br />
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excellence in regional artists through its Distinguished Artist program, an
annual event that includes an award and retrospective exhibition for the
honoree. “We are extremely proud
to honor Yvonne Porcella in this first year,” says Rebecca Phillips Abbott,
Executive Director and Curator, “She is a remarkable textile artist whose works
today are in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC,
the de Young Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of
Art & Design in New York, NY, the Phoenix Art Museum, and numerous others.” The Carnegie’s retrospective exhibit
will trace Porcella’s career from her earliest works up to and including the
present. “In the process,” says Abbott, “we are all given the opportunity to
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A native Californian, Porcella was born in Watsonville, CA,
studied nursing at the University of San Francisco, graduated in 1958 and
worked part-time as an operating room nurse until 1979, and raised four
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Porcella’s gift for artistic expression began in the 1960s
with observations that the same fabrics were used again and again in the
garments people were wearing. She
began spinning her own thread, weaving her own fabrics, and making her own
garments, and was soon involved in the Conference of Northern California
Handweavers. In these early years,
Porcella was influenced by ethnic clothing, primarily from Guatemala and by pieced
and embroidered textiles from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. In 1972 she had her first exhibition of
weavings and wearable art. In 1977
she published <i>Five Ethnic Patterns</i>, followed by an ethnic pattern book <i>Plus
Five</i> then <i>Pieced Clothing</i> in 1980 and by <i>Pieced Clothing Variations</i> in
1981. More publications would
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Her shift from weaving to quiltmaking began when she started
to make garments out of patchwork. In 1979 she attended the West Coast
Quilter's Conference and by the following year she had completely stopped
weaving. It was a pivotal moment,
so much so that she can tell you the date and time she last wove: 28 April 1980 at 8:30 in the
morning! By 1981, she had created
"Takoage," her first art quilt which was later acquired by the
Smithsonian Institution for its Renwick Gallery, located across the street from
the White House in Washington, DC.
It was a promising start for Porcella who rapidly emerged as a visionary
force artistically and in the art quilt movement as a whole. As founder of the <a href="http://www.saqa.com/">Studio Art Quilts Association</a> and President of the Board of Directors, she worked tirelessly in
those early years to establish art quilting as an artistic genre in its own
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Yvonne Porcella’s art quilts are known for their bold
originality as well as for their intricate narratives which inevitably treat
the experiences of everyday life with a great deal of energy, substance, and
nearly always humor. <i>Waiting for
Pink Linoleum, 2001</i>, laments the lack of an arts center in Modesto. At the time this quilt was made, it
appeared there would be no funding for building what later became the Gallo
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As a retrospective exhibit, this exhibit includes works
representing distinct sensibilities in Porcella’s artistic output for a rich
and varied selection, including the early weavings; ethnic-inspired garments; a
series focused on the kimono form; American iconography; quilts for
grandchildren; quilts for an especially whimsical take on life; quilts as
autobiography, and hand painted quilts.
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Asked to reflect on her career, how it began and what drives
her as an artist, Porcella says:
"As a child, motherly love taught me to knit and sew, and rip
mistakes and make it right. Curiosity led to self education, enhanced by a
collection of books, visits to museums, and exploration of textiles from other
countries. Imagination generated inspiration and freedom led to invention. I
learned creativity comes from making your own rules, understanding the limits
of your chosen materials, and having confidence in personal skills.”</div>
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“I do what I love with determination,” she continues, “A
need to finish each action has developed into a major collection of creative
work full of color, filled with events in my life, things that I have heard, emotions
of the moment, exploration of American iconography, revisiting experiences as a
wife, mother, nurse, weaver, mountain climber, author, teacher, world traveler,
craftsman; living amidst the beauty of California’s central valley."</div>
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As is her custom, Porcella’s wearable art works frequently
have humorous titles, including
Kaleidoscopically Yours, How Old Are You Now?, Walking the Streets of
Tomorrow, the latter a reference to a vest made with leftover fabric. Many of the early garments were made
from a rich mixture of ethnic textiles, re-cast by Porcella into a style that
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While the early garments were intended to be worn, Porcella
made others with the intention they would not be worn. The series was titled “Kimono as Quilt”
and it was a subtle affirmation of the art quilt as an artistic genre. These garments were made to be viewed
as works of art. Porcella
experimented with strip piecing and black and white checkerboard blocks in the
early kimonos. The interiors
quickly became as important as the exteriors. Pasha On The 10:04, for example, features a dynamic exterior
of black, white, and red with small accents of rainbow colors. Its interior reveals a printed fabric
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All can be found in a series of quilts she made in the 1980s that explore and celebrate what a foreign visitor, in particular, might consider quintessentially American. Youthful, energetic, unstoppable—these quilts suggest all this and more. <br />
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an early example of its type. It is rich in detail and poignant. Porcella writes, “Memories are part of
the family experience. When I was
young, memories were not something to dwell on…. Only later in my life, now
that I am old enough to remember the losses, does memory play an integral part
in my creative life.” Family
photographs transferred to fabric are surrounded by fabrics intended to convey
time as a continuum here. Other
quilts such as Memories of Childhood, 1988, reflect memories that are uniquely
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her grandchildren and now great grandchildren. Stylistically they trace the progression of her techniques
and are filled with references to family and the passage of time. In Quilt for Vittoria Lee, Porcella
selected some of the fabric she used to make curtains for her own
children. Filled with symbols,
this quilt includes roses that serve as a reference to her own grandmother,
whose name was Rose. The color
pink honors a female child while the heart signifies love. The black and white checkerboard found
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The bold colors that are the hallmark of Porcella’s work
were often countered by a softer, pastel palette achieved through hand painting
silk. Porcella believes the
inspiration for this may have come from living among the almond trees of the
Central Valley. Suggestive of
watercolor, these subtle colors introduce nuances. There is a stillness to them and with that a timelessness.</div>
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There may be nothing more joyous than a purple dog leaping
over a lady with green hair. Much
of Porcella’s work is about living life fully, joyously, and imaginatively and
Purple Dog and Green Hair, 2003, is no exception. Words, symbols, and musings
have been seamlessly incorporated into the overall design. One can find “P&B” at the top
right. The word “Textiles” appears
at the bottom right-- below the heart for “I (Heart) Textiles”—all a reference
to a line of fabric Porcella developed for P&B Textiles in 2003. The question mark is more
pronounced. It is self-referential
and has its origins in a defining exchange with a store clerk. “What is your
last name?” he asked.
"Porcella," she replied.
“First initial?” he asked.
“Y,” she responded.
“Because we need it," he explained. There was surely a moment’s pause on her part as she
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The series <i>Four on the Square</i>, begun in 2000, was an
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Series of Faces were made between 1998 and 2002. Many were for hospital
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thoughts of Mariah from Paint Your Wagon, or Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, or
simply frightening faces from childhood.
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“What is the compelling fascination of quilts?” is a question I hear frequently once someone discovers my passion for quilt history. One of the reasons I give is because quilt history is a natural vehicle for learning about the changing theories of social history and, more specifically, the changing tides of women’s history. But quilts also have an amazing thread linking them to the study of economics, trade and the industrial revolution.</div>
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by quilt-maker Wini Alexander, 1976.</div>
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Children and art naturally make me think of Ruby Short McKim, the 33rd Inductee of The Quilters Hall of Fame. McKim's first quilt designs focused uniquely on themes that would entertain children.</div>
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McKim's first series: Quaddie Quilties - 1916</div>
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Ruby Short was born into a time of great change for women, as was <a href="http://www.quiltershalloffame.net/">Marie Webster, in whose restored home</a> TQHF is now headquartered. <a href="http://www.quiltershalloffame.net/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Marie_Webster.241173344.pdf">Marie</a> was born in 1859, just as the American Civil War was about to fire its first shot. Ruby was born 1891, the year Marie turned 32 and the year Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera.</div>
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Interestingly enough, both Ruby and Marie launched themselves into a quilt-related business just about the same time in the 2nd decade of the 20th century, only one was in her early 50s and the other not yet 20. They surely knew of each other at some point but I am not aware that they ever corresponded with one another. But I could be proven wrong. Historians are digging all the time for new material and information.**<br />
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Cottage needlework industries were certainly not unheard of in the first quarter of the 20th century, but not all of them impacted the direction of quilt design to the degree that both Marie Webster and Ruby McKim did. An excellent paper by quilt historian Cuesta Benberry (1922-2007), “Quilt Cottage Industries: A Chronicle,” established groundbreaking research on this subject. You can find Benberry’s article in the 1994 hardback book, <i>Quiltmaking in America: Beyond the Myths</i>, published by AQSG and edited by Laurel Horton. AQSG still has <a href="http://www.americanquiltstudygroup.org/publications.asp">copies available</a>.</div>
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Both Webster and McKim were forerunners of an explosion of similar quilt-related businesses that emerged during the late 20th century quilt revival. One only has to track the ads in the popular needlework and quilt magazines of the time to see this phenomena emerge. The Internet and other new technology has only added to women’s ability as well as opportunity to create and work from home at something they love.</div>
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Ruby’s father, Morris Trimble Short, was 47 when she was born and died when she was 10. Viola M. Vernon Short, her mother, was 24 years younger than her husband and a powerful role model in Ruby’s life. Viola had already proven herself quite capable as a teacher prior to her marriage and as a missionary’s wife following the family’s move from Illinois to Missouri two year’s before her husband’s death. She was an avid promoter of children’s education and believed that children should be allowed to make their own mistakes and then deal with the consequences. She had her own unique way of training her children how to manage their own meager resources that could well be used as a model today. I found this aspect of Ruby’s childhood as described in Jill Sutton Filo’s AQSG research paper particularly fascinating. (<a href="http://pdfcast.org/paid/9780967019703">Click here</a> to read more about Filo's research.)</div>
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Ruby showed a very early interest in drawing and was known to carry a sketchbook with her everywhere to the point that some family and friends, Filo discovered, jokingly referred to it as part of her wardrobe. Her senior year of high school she served as art editor of the yearbook with twenty-five pages bearing her pen and ink sketches, harbinger of much artwork to come. At age 19 she headed for the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts in New York City where she studied while rooming with her married sister.</div>
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The renowned <a href="http://www.onread.com/writer/frank-alvah-parsons-40074/">Frank Alvah Parsons,</a> pioneer in graphic design and commercial illustration, was joint administrator of the school the four years prior to Ruby’s arrival and became the director during her one year of study, 1910-1911. Without a doubt, <parsons philosophy=""><a href="http://library.newschool.edu/speccoll/kellen/faparsons.php">Parsons’ philosophy</a> had great impact on Ruby’s artistic and entrepreneurial development. <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01EFDB103CE633A25752C2A9649D946396D6CF">Parsons’ influence</a> was far reaching in American cultural history.</parsons></div>
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Ruby returned home to Independence, MO, after one year in New York. Previous researchers have written that Ruby did not graduate from Parsons. However, in 2013, I was informed by granddaughter Christina Jones that the family found Ruby Short's original diploma signed by Frank Alva Parsons himself. This original is now with the McKim collection at the Jackson County Historical Society in in Independence, MO.<br />
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“Bedtime Quilt”, or the “Quaddie Quiltie” series as it soon became known, launched Ruby’s “official” career on May 7, 1916 in the Kansas City Star. It was Ruby’s first published series. Barbara Brackman writes in Women of Design: Quilts in the Newspaper that “the ‘Quaddy Quilties’ … are thought to be the first syndicated pattern series” by a quilter, as well as Ruby’s first published series.</div>
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The quilt from my collection whose blocks you see here bears only 9 of the 20 different patterns from this first series. A fabric tag on the back says: <i>Carol Burr Baby quilt made for Richard born 1918</i>. Although the red sashing is badly worn in places, especially across the top border, I was thrilled to stumble upon such an early copy of Ruby’s first series.<br />
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<b>Ruby Short McKim's First Quilt Series</b></div>
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<thornton burgess="">Ruby's opportunity to create a quilt pattern series for Thorton Burgess came about as a result of her winning a contest. The contest was jointly sponsored by the Kansas City Star newspaper and Burgess's publisher to advertise Burgess's new series of books. </thornton><br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1039871975">Thorton W.</a><thornton burgess=""><a href="http://www.2020site.org/child_calendar"> Burgess</a>, who died in 1965 at the age of 91, was already a well known author at the time of the contest, writing over 170 books and 15,000 stories before the end of his life. His characters, such as: Peter Rabbit, Joe Otter, Hooty the Owl, Jerry Muskrat, and Bobby Raccoon became famous worldwide. (For a list of his books, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Burgess">click here</a>.) It was a red letter day in Ruby's life to win the contest and land this incredible opportunity</thornton><thornton burgess="">.</thornton><br />
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<thornton burgess="">Up to the time of winning the Kansas City Star contest, Ruby had been the director of art for the Independence School District and later taught at Manual Training School in Kansas City, Missouri. According to her granddaughter Christina, the 1916 contest win came at a fortuitous time because Ruby would have to retire from teaching once married. The wedding came about in August 1917. (At that time married women were not allowed to teach unless they were widowed or divorced!)</thornton></div>
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After marriage and soon after the birth of her first child (Betty) in 1918, Ruby’s career quickly resumed. She and husband Arthur, a public relations man by profession, were <a href="http://www.mckimstudios.com/02bio/bio.shtml">often on the road </a>visiting with publishers in an effort to build relationships that would help increase her syndication network. While away on business, Ruby often wrote home to the grandparents who were caring for Betty, and sketched delightful scenes of children busy at play or work as she had witnessed or imagined them while on her trips. A second daughter (Marilyn) was born in 1923 and a son (Kim) in 1933. The family kept Ruby’s letters and sketches and treasure them today.</div>
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In 1921, <i>Woman’s World</i> presented Ruby’s whimsical angular Jolly Circus Quilt and offered pre-stamped kits. I have inserted blocks thru-out the article from this pattern series.</div>
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I was very fortunate to stumble across a summer spread made from this pattern a few years ago. It is the only example of this pattern that I have seen in person, though I have seen photos of other examples. It had apparently hung in an antique shop for a good long while and its muslin background on which the embroidery is done is discolored, perhaps from tobacco smoke? But, fortunately, there are no holes.</div>
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In spite of all the modern forms of entertainment that have come along to distract all of us since my childhood, it is still the memory of the news “The circus is coming to town!” that stirs some of the most anticipatory memories of childhood. There was truly something magical about the circus in the late 1940s and early 50s before our culture had become so saturated with more sophisticated forms of entertainment.</div>
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In January 1922, Ruby became the Children’s Art Editor of a new publication, <i>Child Life Magazine</i>. This relationship, which included quilt patterns and needlework projects for children, continued into the 1930s. With the birth of their second child in 1923, the grandparents begged the couple to end their many road trips.</div>
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With the growing wide-spread exposure of her more distinctive designs, Ruby’s efforts soon evolved into a mail-order business. Their wide-spared traveling for the purpose of meeting businessmen and newspaper editors face-to-face had paid off. From her pen would flow a veritable flood of some 20 embroidery and quilt patterns that were syndicated in various publications as she competed for space with the <a href="http://fiberfantasies.wordpress.com/nancy-page-quilt-patterns/">Nancy Page Quilting Clubs</a> during the 20s and 30s.</div>
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A Crayola version of McKim's Jolly Circus series as seen on eBay 2009.</div>
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<b>McKim's 16-year association with Child Life began in 1922. </b></div>
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Nursery Rhymes series - 1922</div>
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The Nursery Rhymes series seen in <a href="http://www.laurafisherquilts.com/">Laura Fisher's</a> on-line store in 2009.</div>
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According to Jill Filo's research, Ruby’s Nursery Rhyme series (examples above) was the vehicle of <i>one of the earliest recorded children’s quilt contests</i> as seen in Ohio’s Sunday <i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i> in 1922. Filo also articulated in her nomination letter of Ruby to The Quilters Hall of Fame, “The 1926 Colonial History Quilt, an American Sesquicentennial celebration, instigated the January, 1927 “Old-Time Quilts” show and contest in Seattle, Washington sponsored by the Post-Intelligencer.</div>
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1926 Colonial Series from collection of Karen Alexander</div>
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1929 Flower Garden series.</div>
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As the popularity of syndicated quilt pattern series grew, more and more newspapers held contests and exhibits of the best completed quilts, which in turn generated more and more publicity and business for quilting supplies and patterns. One could say that McKim helped begin the tradition of the modern merchandizing of quilting long before the late 20th century quilt revival emerged and took it to an even higher level with its seemingly endless array of patterns, new tools and gadgets.</div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Audubon Bird Life Quilt from McKim's 1931 book</span></i></div>
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See more quilts made from the Audubon Bird of Life series by clicking <a href="http://www.baltimorealbumquilts.com/Quilts%20Vintage/Bird-Life-Quilt-Ruby-McKim/Bird%20Life.htm">here</a>. Quilt makers experimented with a variety of mediums with this pattern, it seems.</div>
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<i>Successful Farming</i> magazine ran five of Ruby’s features from 1922-1928 with Ruby selling transfer patterns for the first time in this publication in November 1928.</div>
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<i>Farm Life first published in 1930</i></div>
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<b>McKim Continues to Expand Venues of Publication</b></div>
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How much more could this amazingly productive woman juggle? For starters, she began writing her “Adventures in Home Beautifying” column January 1928 for <i>Better Home and Gardens Magazine</i>, focusing on a different room of the house each month. In that same year she and her husband Arthur founded McKim Studios in Independence, Missouri, which soon became a successful mail-order needlework supply and pattern business.</div>
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Although Ruby’s first patterns appeared in the Kansas City Star in 1916, it wasn’t until September 1928 that Ruby became a key player in the launch of the Kansas City Star’s on-going promotion of quilt patterns, beginning with her traditional Pine Tree pieced pattern. This was the beginning of a 33-year tradition by the KCS newspaper of offering full-size quilt patterns, although Ruby herself would stay involved only until September 20, 1930, at which time Eveline Foland took over.</div>
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Ruby’s self-published 1931 book, <i>101 Patchwork Patterns</i>, one of the earliest quilt pattern anthologies that had detailed instructions, was a natural next step in the progression of her career. It is still considered a classic and revised reprints are readily available, but it’s far more fun to track down a copy of the original hard back shown above.</div>
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The book cemented Ruby’s place as one of the giants of early 20th century quilt history. As the Dayton Daily News declared Oct 2, 1932, “wherever quilts and quilt patterns are known, the name of ‘McKim Studios’ is as famous as the name Tiffany is famous in the diamond world.” Ruby was included in the second edition of <i>Who’s Who Among American Women</i> and her influence on American quilting continues unabated, as her patterns enjoy still another revival in the 21st century.</div>
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I don't know the name of the little girl for whom the doll quilt (below) was made. Thanks to my quilt history friends, however, who pointed me to the above McKim catalogue, I do now know that if you ordered all 12 stamped blocks (each 9 inches square) of the Toy Shop Window series, you received a doll size pre-printed quilt top as a premium. The little doll blanket in my collection measures all of 19x14 inches and has a salt bag as its back.</div>
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If you ordered the complete series of this pattern from the catalogue, you were<br />
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<a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/doll-collecting-traces-roots-18th-century">Doll collecting</a> is considered in the top 5 collection topics in the world today. (See what they were in 1942 by clicking <a href="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/11/04/americas-five-favorite-hobbies/">here</a>.) Arthur and Ruby McKim traveled through-out the US in the 20s and 30s drumming up business for Ruby's syndicated columns. In 1933 they visited Europe. One of the purposes of the trip was to see if they could interest European newspapers in Ruby's syndicated series. I have never heard of any success with the European newspapers but it seems to have been this same trip that they got interested in importing dolls, resulting in their Kimport Dolls business. By the late 1930s Ruby was focusing more and more on her doll business. Though Ruby and Arthur started Kimport Dolls by importing dolls from around the world, the company eventually began manufacturing dolls itself. Granddaughter Christina Jones wrote in her recent email,<br />
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By the late 1930s, the McKim Studio needlework business had fully transitioned into Kimport, a doll business. Together Ruby and Arthur once again worked as a team managing Kimport Dolls. They also published <i>Doll Talk for Collectors</i> for decades, a magazine for the Dolly Hobby Club.<br />
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Granddaughter Christina recently shared that eventually her Uncle Kim became owner of the business shortly before his father's (Arthur) death in 1967 and continued the doll business for many years. Ruby died in 1976. The Studio was finally closed in 1985. In 2006 the site of the old McKim Studios in Independence, Missouri became Woodstock Inn Bed & Breakfast.</div>
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It has been exciting to see two of Ruby’s granddaughters, Christina and Merrily, take on the challenge of carrying on Ruby’s legacy by re-issuing her designs and even creating them in some new forms. <clicking here=""><a href="http://www.mckimstudios.com/06bboard/bboard.shtml">Click here</a> to go to their website. Then scroll to the bottom of their page and click on this phrase: </clicking><a href="http://www.mckimstudios.com/06bboard/quiltshow.lbwa.shtml" style="color: #003333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">VIEW THE PHOTOS</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> of RSM </span>featured at the Quilt Show in Ilwaco, WA<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (opens in a new window)</span> to see some of the McKim quilt patterns being made today.</div>
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The family has also been encouraging and assisting the <jackson county="" historical="" society="">Jackson County Historical Society to begin the process of collecting any historic ephemera related to McKim Studios’ design and business history. </jackson></div>
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To see more vintage McKim quilts, <a href="http://quilts-vintageandantique.blogspot.com/2011/01/ruby-mckim-quilts.html">click here to visit the blog Quilts-Vintage and Antique</a> and see what one quilt collector has managed to find.</div>
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*This article was 1st published 27 July 2009 in the TQS Quilt Pioneer Series; updated in November 2011 for the TQHF blog; and updated again April 2013, thanks to new information shared with me by Christina Jones, a granddaughter of Ruby Short McKim.<br />
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(1) Rose Lea Alboum, Index To The Ruby Short McKim Quilt Blocks (no date but my guess is about 2005) http://www.americanlegacyquiltindexes.com/</div>
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(2) Christine Bowman, “Jill Sutton File — One Researcher’s Road”, AQSG’s Blanket Statements, Winter 1996</div>
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(3) Barbara Brackman, Women of Design: Quilts in the Newspaper, Kansas City Star Books (2004)</div>
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(4) Chris Jones, “Ruby McKim” in The Quilters Hall of Fame, ed. Merikay Waldvogel and Rosalind Webster Perry (Marion, IN – The Quilters Hall of Fame, 2004)</div>
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(5) Heidi Kaisand, Better Homes and Gardens: Century of Quilt. Meredith Corporation (2004), publishers of Better Homes and Gardens and American Patchwork and Quilting</div>
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(6) Jill Filo Sutton, “Ruby Short McKim: The Formative Years” in Uncoverings 1996, ed. Virginia Gunn (San Francisco, CA: American Quilt Study Group, 1996)</div>
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(7) Jill Sutton Filo, “Ruby short McKim’s Roly Poly Circus Quilt”, 75th anniversary Edition 1923-1998, Charlottes, Press, Akron, Ohio (1998)</div>
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(8)McKim nomination letters from the files of The Quilters Hall of Fame</div>
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(9) AQSG member Rose Marie Werner has been doing research on companies and designers of the quilt kits of the 20th century. McKim Studios has been included in her research. Watch for her website to go live sometime in the next 4-8 weeks at quiltkitsID.com.</div>
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(10) Jackson County Historical Society. Researchers are welcome to make an appointment and visit the Jackson County (Mo.) Historical Society's Archives to research into the Ruby Short McKim Collection. The collection is organized into three main categories: 1) Personal Papers (including those of Ruby’s parents/grandparents); 2) quilt and appliqué patterns (including both her syndicated materials in newspapers and magazines; and, those which her Independence-based business published); and 3) Doll Talk magazine, and doll-related materials of Kimport Dolls. JCHS welcomes donations, and are appreciative to the individuals who have kindly transferred selected materials to help build a more complete McKim collection. www.jchs.org/archives/archives.html</div>
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11) Rose Lea Alboum's <a href="http://www.americanlegacyquiltindexes.com/">The American Legacy Quilt Index Series</a><br />
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12) April 2013 email from Christina Jones, granddaughter of Ruby Short McKim and daughter of Ruby's first child, Betty, to Karen B. Alexander.</div>
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<b>List of SERIES QUILTS by Ruby Short McKim</b></div>
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1916 - QUADDY QUILTIE BOOK • Item #QS 204<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1916 – MOTHER GOOSE<br />
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1921 – JOLLY CIRCUS series offered in <i>Woman's World </i></div>
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1922 - NURSERY RHYME QUILTIE BOOK • Item #QS 202<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1923 – ALICE IN WONDERLAND</div>
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1923 – BETTY BLUE & BOBBY SHAFTOE</div>
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1923 - ROLY POLY CIRCUS QUILT BOOK • Item #499<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1924 – CHILD LIFE</div>
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1926 - PETER PAN QUILT BOOK • Item #QS 201<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1926 – COLONIAL LIFE</div>
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1927 - BIBLE HISTORY QUILT BOOK • Item #400</div>
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1929-30 - FLOWER GARDEN QUILT BOOK • Item #401<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1930 - FARM LIFE QUILT BOOK • Item #403<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1930 – BONNET BABIES</div>
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1930 – PATCHWORK QUILT</div>
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1931 – PARADE OF STATES</div>
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1931 - STATE FLOWERS QUILT BOOK • Item #QS 205<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1932 – FRUIT BASKET</div>
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1932 - TOY SHOP WINDOW QUILT BOOK • Item #439<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1933 - WILDWOOD FLOWERS QUILT BOOK • Item #QS 203<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1934 - THREE LITTLE PIGS QUILT BOOK • Item #481<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1934 – FLOWER BASKET</div>
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1935 - RHYMELAND QUILT BOOK • Item #QS 207<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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1937 - AMERICAN SHIPS QUILT BOOK • Item #QS 206<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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Come join us in July 2012 at the historic Marie Webster House in Marion, Indiana, for the induction of <a href="http://thequiltershalloffame.blogspot.com/2011/09/eleanor-burns-announced-as-2012.html">Eleanor Burns</a> as the 43rd Honoree!</div>
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Burns, author of over 107 quilt instruction books, and host of her own
television show for over 22 years, as the 2012 Quilters Hall of Fame inductee.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eleanor Burns' fans are legion. Her warmth, sense of humor
and passion for teaching is legendary; her marketing skills and enterprising
spirit greatly admired; her classes kept up to date to reflect the latest
contemporary trends in the market.</span></div>
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The 1978 self-publication of her first book, "Make a
Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern," was a pivotal decision in Burns'
business career. Yes, she self-published before the day of e-books! Thereafter,
she became a prolific author, revered teacher trainer, popular television
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Burns ventured into the television world on The Learning
Channel in 1985. In 1990, her Quilt in a Day TV series began airing on PBS and
is still broadcasting nationwide and abroad. In 1998 Burns created her first
collaboration fabric design series, Anniversary Florals, with Benartex, Inc.
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In 1999 Burns received the Michael Kile Lifetime Achievement
Award for her support of the quilting industry and her work to achieve a
long-lasting effect for the advancement of quilting. This award is the most
prestigious and coveted award in its field. In 2005, Eleanor Burns was named
one of 5 quilters voted All American Quilter by an on-line survey conducted by
the American Quilters Society. </div>
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The date for Burns official induction is July 21, 2012. Visit
Burns' media theater here.</div>
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In looking over past Celebrations, I came across an article
I wrote for the Fall 2000 edition of the newsletter of The Quilters Hall of
Fame and thought you might enjoy it.
Eleanor Burns was a speaker that year as was Merikay Waldvogel, another
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Quilting has a long colorful history in America, much of it
surrounded by myths still hard to shake off in spite of the now well documented
field of quilt history that was launched in 1980 with the founding of the
<a href="http://www.americanquiltstudygroup.org/publications.asp">American Quilt Study Group</a>. The
humble quilt has touched innumerable aspects of the American experience and
reflected the evolution of our culture.</div>
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The mission of The Quilters Hall of Fame is to celebrate
quilting as an art form by honoring the lives and accomplishments of those
people who have made outstanding contributions to the world of quilting; by
restoration and preservation of the National Landmark home of quilt designer
Marie D. Webster in Marion, Indiana; by promoting programs, exhibitions,
publications and research; and by collecting, preserving and documenting
materials related to the honorees of The Quilters Hall of Fame.</div>
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<b>Ardis Butler James 1925-2011</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are all saddened by the passing of Ardis James on July 7. Ardis was to have been inducted into The Quilters Hall of Fame on Saturday July 16, together with her husband Robert, in Marion, Indiana. Friends and family will still gather in Marion to salute this remarkable woman, bearing witness to all her many accomplishments on behalf of quilts during the traditional open-mic salute of the new Inductee. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The New York Times' photo story can be found by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/arts/ardis-butler-james-quilt-collector-dies-at-85.html?_r=1&hpw">clicking here</a>. Below is a photo taken in their home in 2002.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Alliance for American Quilts will most likely be releasing their video interview of the Jameses within the year. Watch for it to be posted here </span><a href="http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/treasures/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.<wbr></wbr>allianceforamericanquilts.org/<wbr></wbr>treasures/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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from the quilt "Listen to Your Mother" by Jean Ray Laury</div>
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It is with deep sadness that TQHF shares the loss of another of its Inductees. Honoree Jean Ray Laury passed away Wednesday, March 1, 2011, in Northern California. <a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/03/03/2295579/fresno-artistauthor-dies-at-82.html">Click here</a> for more details.</div>
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<i>Above, Jean Ray Laury at the Grand Opening of The Quilters Hall of Fame July 2004 in Marion, Indiana. (The great-granddaughter of Marie Webster and her daughter sit behind Jean.)</i></div>
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It has been suggested by more than one quilt historian that the pivotal person in quilt history whose influence bridged the "pre-1970s" quilt world and the "post-70s" quilt world was Jean Ray Laury of California.<br />
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While studying art and design at graduate school at Stanford University in the late-50s, Laury made “Tom’s Quilt” for one of her Master’s classes. It was her first quilt and it became the catalyst that launched a long productive career that spanned many aspects of the art and feminist world, as well as the quilt world. </div>
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You can see Laury's very first quilt --"Tom's Quilt" -- <a href="http://www.jeanraylaury.com/quilts.htm">here</a> and read about the events that quickly followed in her life (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray_Laury">click here</a>) that, in my opinion, was a pivotal key in the late 20th century Quilt Revival. Laury entered her first quilt in the Storrowton Village/Eastern States Exposition in 1958. Though she didn't win a prize she caught the attention of Roxa Wright, the creative editor at House Beautiful at the time. As a result of this fortuitous meeting with Roxa Wright, Laury's career as a quilt desinger, teacher and author was launched, with her many articles appearing in Woman's Day, Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, Cosmopolitan, Needlecraft as well as many others.</div>
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Jean Ray Laury started designing and making "modern" as well as whimsical quilts in the late 1950s. Naturally, books followed. Her <i>Sunbonnnet Sue Goes to the Quilt Show</i> poked gentle fun at the changes the modern quilt world was bringing into quilters' lives.<br />
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In May and June of 1982 (Issues #142 and 143) Bonnie Leman featured Laury as a guest columnist in the pages of <a href="http://www.quiltersnewsletter.com/articles/qn_indexes">Quilters Newsletter Magazine</a> for the first time. </div>
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Eventually Leman wrote in her editorial (January 1983-Issue #148), "I am happy to tell you that Jean Ray Laury is back with another column, and the really good news is that she will be with us in nearly every issue this year. The two columns she wrote for us last year drew so many letters from you that it seemed clear to me you wanted more of her wit and wisdom. So she will be with us regularly for awhile." And so she was for over 20 years. </div>
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So much of Laury's work was tongue-in-cheek humor with a message. She often delivered her message with "spoonful of sugar" that left you smiling and remembering the message long afterwards!</div>
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Her book <i>The Creative Woman's Getting-It-All-Together-At-Home Handbook</i> created no small stir in 1975 when it first appeared. A room of her own? Just how far would these mere quilters go?<br />
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In 2005 <a href="http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/">San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles</a> did the first major retrospective anyone had done of the <a href="http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/press_releases/JRL_PR.pdf">life and work</a> of Jean Ray Laury. </div>
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<b>~Four Pioneers of the late 20th century Quilt Revival~</b></div>
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The above photo was taken at the San Jose Textile and Quilt Museum, San Jose, California, Oct 2009 during the <a href="http://www.americanquiltstudygroup.org/seminar.asp">AQSG 2009 Seminar</a>.</div>
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The Alliance for American Quilts selected Laury as one of its <a href="http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/treasures/main.php?id=5-16-6">"Quilt Treasures"</a> and filmed her in her home for posterity. She is one of only 14 people to date in the quilt world to be thus honored.</div>
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(Right:) Her series on aging on display at the 2009 AQSG Seminar in San Jose, Califorina is one of Laury's more recent pieces.</div>
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In 2003 Laury donated her personal papers <a href="http://www.arnenixoncenter.org/finding_aids/anc0011.htm">on children's books</a> to the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Henry Madden Library California State University, Fresno. These papers are available on-site for research.</div>
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Take a few minutes to view her <a href="http://www.jeanraylaury.com/">colorful website</a> and enjoy reviewing her many contributions to late 20th century quiltmaking.</div>
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I suspect there will be much more written about Jean Ray Laury over the years as new generations of women discover her art, her humor and her wisdom. In the meantime, be sure to read Colleen Hall-Patton's AQSG paper <i>Jean Ray Laury in the 1960s: Foremother of a Quilt Revival</i> in <a href="http://www.americanquiltstudygroup.org/publications.asp">Uncoverings 2005</a>.</div>
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For more tributes, see <a href="http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2011/03/jean-ray-laury-1928-2011.html">Barbara Brackman's blog</a>, <a href="http://www.lesleyriley.com/weblog/?p=697">Lesley Riley's</a> blog and <a href="http://www.saqa.com/information.php?ID=388">SAQA's blog</a>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Don't mourn for me. I have had a long and happy life, a wonderful family, and an exciting and satisfying career. My family includes Frank, my husband for most of over 60 years, who has always been incredibly supportive, helpful, and fun to live with. Our son Tom is a voracious reader, and for more than forty years a beekeeper. Tom's wife, Dr. Ritva Laury is a linguist who divides her time between Fresno and the University of Helsinki, Finland. Our daughter Lizabeth Laury works with horses and writes. Mike Brown teaches chemistry and physics at Washington Union High School. Ritva and Mike are very special additions to our family. Our granddaughter Anna Laury, M.D. completed her final boards in 2010 and pursues her career in Boston. Her sister, Emma Laury, J.D. graduated in May 2010 from law school, passed the California Bar and now works at OSHA in Washington, D.C. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Among my most cherished friends of many years are partner and co-author on several books, Joyce Aiken; the talented and remarkable Stan Bitters, a diamond covered in clay dust; and Ruth Law, Los Angeles toymaker, and friend for over sixty years. It's been wonderful working with fellow artists and writers. My Book Club, which has met for over forty years, has been special, and I've enjoyed our discussion group, Dry Creek Seminar, and my writing groups. I have always loved writing, and have had numerous books published, and many articles, parodies and essays. It has been a constant in my life. I recently completed a collection of stories, titled "Growing up in Doon, the 1930's: A Quilter's Memoir" about life in Iowa with my sisters, Jackie, Joan and Joyce. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">My quilting career gave me the opportunity to travel the world: Japan, Australia, Canada, Norway, France, England, South Africa and many other countries. Quilting friends from across the United States have been an important part of my life, having always been enthusiatic and supportive in whatever I did. I was never far from home when I was with quilters. As wonderful as teaching and traveling were, getting back to Fresno felt like coming home. It has been wonderful being here with you. To all of you, thanks for being with me on this journey. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Remembrances may be made to Hinds Hospice; Marjaree Mason Center; or at jeanraylaury@... NEPTUNE SOCIETY Of Central California 1154 W. Shaw, Fresno (559) 222-7764 </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It's that time of year to think about heading to Marion Indiana to help us celebrate quilt history once more! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The dates are Thursday-Saturday, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">July 14-16, 2011.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> The TQHF Celebration Planning Committee has once again put together a great variety of workshops and lectures that cover both quilt history and the how-tos of quilt making. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you have never seen the Marie Webster House, you are in for a treat. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here 2003 Honoree Georgia Bonesteel leads a walk-thru of The Alliance for American Quilts exhibit <br />
"Put A Roof Over Our Heads" at Celebration 2007. These small quilts were later auctioned by the Alliance <br />
on the Internet to raise funds for The Alliance.</td></tr>
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Please come join us for three jam-packed days of fascinating history and beautiful quilts!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gwen Marston had the honor of leading the exhibit walk-thru of the 2007 Honoree Mary Schafer Quitl Exhibit. <br />
(TQHF founder Hazel Carter in blue. Gwen Marston in green.)</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-style: normal;"><br />
</span></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And don't forget the Annual TQHF Auction that takes place during Celebration! A favorite with the crowd, the TQHF Auction is a great place to meet up with friends for a little friendly competion while you help support a great cause!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">The TQHF Auction is not to be missed! From antique quilts to art quilts, we have great variety each year. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In 2007 we were gifted with a number of art quilts. Several were made by Mary Jo Bowers of Chicago, which you see hanging behind Georgia Bonesteel and Hazel Carter. </div><br />
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All the items in this photo EXCEPT the one Hazel Carter is holding were in the 2007 TQHF auction.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Please consider making a donation of antique quilt pieces or an antique quilt, a wall hanging you have made, quilt ephemera you have found at a flea market or other related quilt items to this years auction!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Check back here soon for more instructions on where to send your Auction donation and when!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And thank you for support The Quilters Hall of Fame!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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