by Quilt Alliance | Oct 11, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 2002, former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize. Carter, a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, served one term as U.S. President between 1977-1981. Carter and his wife Rosalynn created the human-rights focused Carter Center in Atlanta in 1982, and since 1984 they have worked with Habitat for Humanity to build homes and raise awareness of homelessness. Mariah Davenport of Plains, Georgia hand pieced and hand quilted this Carpenter’s Wheel quilt between 1800-1849. The owner inherited the quilt and documented it as part of the Florida Quilt Project. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jimmy-carter-wins-nobel-prize Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Oct 10, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1917, jazz pianist Theolonius Monk was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He moved to New York City with his parents and two siblings at the age of five and started playing piano at age six. He was mostly self-taught, but took some classes at Julliard School of Music. Monk became the second-most recorded jazz composer (after Duke Ellington) and was one of only five jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. Burrah Williams of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, hand pieced and hand quilted this “Babies First Star” or “Hexagonal Star” quilt in 1932. Williams used scrap fabric for the top and purchased backing fabric at Charles [store?] for $.10/yard. The quiltmaker documented her quilt as part of the North Carolina Quilt Project. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Oct 9, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1969, the first World Post Day was celebrated at the Universal Postal Union Congress in Tokyo, Japan. The day is celebrated every year to bring awareness to the importance of postal services. This quilt, an original design titled “Road to San Clemente,” was hand pieced and hand quilted in 8 weeks by twenty-something Lorraine Rumpf in Montclair, California in 1975. Rumpf, a retired rural postal carrier for the U.S. Postal Service documented her quilt in the Michigan Quilt Project. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view. Source: http://www.upu.int/en/the-upu/world-post-day/about-wpd.html Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Oct 8, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis, a poor evangelical student from Louisiana, fought his strict Christian upbringing to record his second hit rock and roll song, “Great Balls of Fire.” This “Ball of String” quilt was made by Tennessean Ila S. Beasley in 1928. Ila’s niece documented the quilt during the Quilts of Tennessee survey and reported that her aunt hand pieced and hand quilted this string quilt for her hope chest before she married. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jerry-lee-lewis-records-quotgreat-balls-of-firequot-in-memphis-tennessee Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Oct 7, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1985, Lynette Woodard (born in Wichita, Kansas in 1959) became the first woman to join the Harlem Globetrotters. Woodard helped her team win two state basketball titles in high school, and in college at the University of Kansas, she was a four-time All-American athlete. She was a member of the 1984 U. S. women’s basketball team that won the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games. Woodard coached for a time and now works as a financial consultant in Wichita. Sondra Millard, also born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, made this quilt, titled “The Land of Oz,” in 2012 for the Quilt Alliance’s “Home Is Where the Quilt Is” contest. Millard wrote in her artist’s statement: “It was an easy decision to portray everything I love about being a Kansas girl in fabric. Our crazy weather, skies that go on forever, sunflowers waving from the side of the road and of course the wheat fields as the wind ripples across them. Kansas is home. It’s where I learned to quilt at the age of 9 on snowy days in a small-town country school.” View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_Woodard Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
