Quilt Alliance’s Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories Oral History Project: International Quilt Festival
Project Summary
These interviews were conducted in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2003 after QSOS trainings by QSOS volunteers at International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, with the support of the International Quilt Association and Quilts, Inc.Quilters’ S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories (QSOS) is a grassroots oral history project created by the nonprofit Quilt Alliance that records, preserves, and shares the stories of living quiltmakers. The Quilt Alliance (formerly The Alliance for American Quilts) was formed in 1993 by Shelly Zegart and Eunice Ray of the Kentucky Quilt Project, and Karey Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant, corporate officers of Quilts, Inc. and founders of the non-profit Texas Quilt Search. In the fall of 1999, QSOS project was introduced by the Quilt Alliance and the International Quilt Festival. QSOS was one of several Quilt Alliance projects and partnerships created in an effort to preserve and celebrate the lives and stories of quilters and quiltmaking. Regional QSOS projects conducted interviews at quilt shows, guild meetings, and private homes across the country and around the world. The project continued though 2016. As of November 2016 the collection includes interviews with all fifty US states, the United States Virgin Islands, and nine other countries represented including: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Georgia (Republic), Germany, Japan, Kenya, Peru, and Russia. The QSOS oral history project is a partnership between the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, the Quilt Alliance, and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Project Code
qsosiqf
Interviews in this Project (174 Total):
: Mary Laskowski
: Online
: Le Rowell
: Online
: Paula Bosselman
: Online
: Brenda Horton
: Online
: Christy Johnson
: Request
: Janell Epp
: Online
: Marietta M. Womack
: Request
: Brenda Horton
: Online
: Lorraine Jackson
: Online
: Patricia Shaer
: Online
: Jeri Baldwin
: Online
: Brenda Horton
: Request
: Christy Johnson
: Online
: Allison Moss
: Online
: JoAnn Pospisil
: Request
: Patricia Crews
: Request
: Jana Hawley
: Request
: Karen Dennis
: Request
: Janice Simpson
: Request
: Karen Musgrave
: Request
: Charletta McDougall
: Request
: Jana Hawley
: Request
: Theresa Thompkins Walsh
: Request
: JoAnn Pospisil
: Online
: Charletta MacDougal
: Online
: Karen Bennick
: Request
: Jana Hawley
: Online
: JoAnn Pospisil
: Request
: Jana Hawley
: Request
: Marsha Turner
: Request
: JoAnn Russo
: Online
: Pauline Salzman
: Request
: Karen Bennick
: Online
: Flavin Glover
: Request
: Marsha Turner
: Request
: Jana Hawley
: Online
: Flavin Glover
: Online
: Karen Bennick
: Online
: Eva Knight
: Request
: Marilyn Geary
: Online
: Phyllis J. Harris
: Online
: Rebecca Salinger
: Request
: Jackie Theriot
: Online
: Amy Henderson
: Online
: Bernard Herman
: Request
: Judy Holley
: Online
: Eva Knight
: Request
: Marilyn Geary
: Request
: Amy Henderson
: Online
: Rebecca Salinger
: Online
: Gloria Answell
: Online
: Jana Hawley
: Online
: JoAnn Pospisil
: Request
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Request
: Janelle Acher
: Request
: JoAnn Pospisil
: Online
: Judy Preston
: Online
: Kay Jones
: Request
: Georgeann Wrinkle
: Request
: Le Rowell
: Online
: Leah Call
: Online
: Terri Newman
: Request
: Le Rowell
: Request
: Bernard Herman
: Request
: Heather Gibson
: Request
: Judy Holley
: Request
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Online
: Kay Jones
: Request
: Renee Jackson
: Request
: Janelle Archer
: Request
: Jean Look-Krischano
: Request
: Barbara Beck
: Request
: Jana Hawley
: Request
: Karen Plummer
: Request
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: Request
: Karen Musgrave
: Online
: Ellen Menefee
: Request
: Kay Jones
: Request
: Rebecca Salinger
: Request
: Barbara Beck
: Request
: Karen Bennick
: Request
: Renee Jackson
: Online
: Pauline Saulzman
: Request
: Jana Hawley
: Request
: Kay Jones
: Request
: Karen Plummer
: Online
: Karen Bennick
: Online
: Heather Gibson
: Request
: Marcie Ferris
: Request
: Leah Call
: Request
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Request
: Ellen Menefee
: Request
: Jana Hawley
: Online
: Joyce Starr Johnson
: Request
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Online
: JoAnn Pospisil
: Online
: Jana Hawley
: Request
: Gloria Adriance-Answell
: Online
: Jana Hawley
: Online
: Joyce Starr Johnson
: Online
: Patricia Plunk
: Online
: JoAnn Pospisil
: Online
: Jana Hawley
: Request
: Rebecca Salinger
: Request
: Joyce Starr Johnson
: Request
: Carolyn Malaski
: Online
: Joyce Starr Johnson
: Request
: Sandy Mehall
: Online
: Rebecca Salinger
: Request
: Pauline Salzman
: Online
: Joyce Starr Johnson
: Request
: Judy Pelston
: Request
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Online
: Judy Holley
: Request
: Rebecca Salinger
: Request
: Betty Colburn
: Online
: Judy Holley
: Request
: Lynn Forster
: Request
: JoAnn Pospisil
: Online
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Online
: Joyce Starr Johnson
: Online
: JoAnn Pospisil
: Online
: Joyce Starr Johnson
: Online
: Joe Koval
: Request
: Barbara Beck
: Online
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Request
: Joyce Starr Johnson
: Request
: Judy Holley
: Online
: Betty Colburn
: Request
: Sandy Mehall
: Request
: Carolyn Malaski
: Online
: Sandy Mehall
: Request
: Rebecca Salinger
: Request
: Kay Jones
: Request
: Kay Jones
: Online
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Online
: Judy Holley
: Request
: Joyce Starr Johnson
: Request
: Pauline Salzman
: Request
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Online
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Online
: Barbara Beck
: Online
: Hester Able
: Online
: Jo Frances Greenlaw
: Online
: Joe Koval
: Request
: Joe Koval
: Request
: Sandy Mehall
: Request
: Kay Jones
: Online
: Meg Cox
: Online
: Meg Cox
: Request
: Amy Milne
: Request
: Donna Mikesch
: Request
: Barbara Beck
: Request
: Leah Call
: Request
: Donna Mikesch
: Request
: Hollis Chatelaine
: Request
: Karen Downer
: Request
: Sandi Goldman
: Request
: Angela Steiner
: Request
: Phyllis Jordan
: Request
: Helen Kamphuis
: Request
: Cassino Richardson
: Request
: Suzanna Hardabeck
: Request
: Donna Mikesch
: Request
: Ellen Cabluc
: Request
: Shelly Pagliali
: Request
: Karen Downer
: Request
: Meg Cox
: Request
: Barbara Stavlo
: Request
: Cindy Dollar Brown
: Request
: Mary McCarthy
: Request
: Erin Nesmit
: Request
: Sandy Goldman
: Request
: Sally Creegey
: Request