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Healing Quilts of the Ozarks continues

Seven years after the Healing Quilt Project of the Ozarks was established in Springfield, its founder is taking the ministry to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Despite the move, the work of the Healing Quilt Project — providing warming quilts for people who are ill and creating memorial quilts for those who have died — will [...]

‘The Ozarks Quilt’ Collaboration

Designed by Lily Kern, made by members of the Ozark Piecemakers Quilt Guild, Springfield, Missouri, and quilted by Peggy White, The Ozarks Quilt received a second place at the Internatonal Quilt Festival in Houston, 1999, was exhibited at Paducah, and again received a 2nd place ribbon at the National Quilt Association show in Tulsa in [...]

Quilt Artist: Verna Mosquera, The Vintage Spool

Verna Mosquera is Owner/Designer of The Vintage Spool.
Her quilting artist statement:
As a first generation quilter, the art of making quilts is relatively new to me. With a strong background in art, and having sewn since childhood, quilt making always intrigued me. I was able to take my first class at my local quilt shop in [...]

“Safe As Houses” Quilt Story

By Sharon Boggon
I live in Canberra Australia in one of the suburbs that was hit by the firestorm on January 18 2003. This was a small crazy quilt I made in response to the fires.
The quilt is divided into 4 strips. Starting left to right, the first represents the day of the fires, the [...]