How did the culture of the 1930s Depression impact quilting? What were those times like, how did women use quilting to make life better, and what can we learn from them? The program includes interesting information about life in the 1930s, how daily living inspired quilt designing and making, and sharing samples and using authentic publicity, photos, fabrics, and patterns. This program tells the story of how American women met the challenges of the Great Depression through quilting. Historical facts and stories, biographies, print materials, and authentic fabrics and quilts will be featured, with time allowed for questions.
Judith Shuey is a former Executive Director of the Virginia Quilt Museum. She has always enjoyed sharing her love of all kinds of quilts, but her favorite stories always involve Depression era quilts and the times that inspired them. To her they speak of making the best of what you have, working hard to make things better, and rejoicing in the simple things.
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Photo is VQM.2016.003.001 Lone Star made by Cloah Ann McCoy Lockhart.
