Summer reading, viewing and listening

Some reading, viewing, and listening for these summer days when you might not be sewing...

Craft in America: QUILTS (video)

This one-hour episode premiered on PBS on 27 December 2019. This link is to the You Tube posting.

Learn about contemporary quilters from diverse traditions as we celebrate the important role quilts have played in our country's story. Featuring Susan Hudson, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, Michael A. Cummings, Judith Content, the International Quilt Museum, and special guest Ken Burns ... www.craftinamerica.org

The trunk show to end all trunk shows (pt 2)

Here is the advice I’d like to share with you, quilters. This comes after five years of writing the Scout, 11 years of quiltmaking, a decade in the industry, and a whole lot of life spent around quilts ...  Mary Fons, Quilts Inc

Quilting helps this vet with PTSD

After two tours as an Army Battle Command Systems operator in Iraq, Army Staff Sgt. Andrew Lee was discharged with PTSD. It took awhile once home to find a focus, but one day he discovered a Joanne’s Fabrics flyer in the mail and decided to make a runner for his Mom ... Quilting Digest, 11 November 2019

The history of the zipper

It was a long way up for the humble zipper, the mechanical wonder that has kept our lives "together" in many ways. The zipper was invented with the work of several dedicated inventors, though none convinced the general public to accept the zipper as part of everyday life. It was the magazine and fashion industry that made the novel zipper the popular item it is today ... Mary Bellis, ThoughtCo, 4 October 2019

A thousand needle workers volunteer to finish dead woman's quilt

Shannon Downey was at an estate sale in Chicago where a 99-year old woman named Rita Smith used to live. In the bedroom Downey found hundreds of pieces of fabric that had been intended for a big quilting project which Smith started before she died.
Downey, who often looks for antique and vintage textiles to work with, said she was "emotional and overwhelmed" when she came across the unfinished quilt ... Rozina Sini, BBC News, 24 October 2019

'The Quilt', Ami Williamson
One of our members, Pam, has alerted us to this song by Australian singer Ami Williamson, who will be performing at the local Hornsby Folk Club in February. If you are a Sydney sider, you might recognise the quilt shop location, and the quilters in the video, and there is more about the making of the quilt in the short documentary about the making of the album, The Quilt, available here.