Special Announcement

Happy Monday! Today, I have a special announcement. Apologies in advance for not having more details, but it's exciting news, so I just had to share.

If you've read my blog, even occasionally, you may have noticed I love polyester quilts. I have collected them for several years, and I've got a pretty good collection of them now.

Polyester quilts were part of my first article about the quilts of the 1970s, published in 2013 in American Quilter Magazine.

Around the same time, Generation Q Magazine named me one of the Double-Knit Twins, along with fellow collector and quiltmaker Victoria Findlay Wolfe. We are proud of the moniker. Growing up, Victoria slept under family-made polyester quilts in Minnesota.

Last year, I published a feature article in Quilters Newsletter Magazine, and a research article in Blanket Statements, newsletter of the American Quilt Study Group (AQSG). It was the first time polyester was the subject of a research article published by AQSG.

QuiltCon 2015

"Modern Materials, Quilts of the 1970s" at Benton County Museum

Last year, I also had a special exhibit at QuiltCon in Austin, Texas, and the debut museum exhibition of 1970s quilts at the Benton County Museum in Philomath, Oregon. The flurry of polyester left a few connoisseurs scratching their heads, but we were seeing the quilts of the revival for the first time in a new context. I thought it was pretty thrilling.

By now, you may be wondering about that special announcement I had, so I'll stop stringing you along. Last week, I received a phone call from one of the curators at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was an invitation to exhibit polyester quilts at the museum.

The International Quilt Study Center & Museum is a bucket list destination for quilt lovers. It is a state-of-the-art facility with beautiful, spacious galleries. They have a variety of outstanding exhibitions each year.

I visited the museum in 2012 when the American Quilt Study Group Seminar was in Lincoln. The facility is top notch, as is the staff. So impressed!

Happily, I accepted the invitation to exhibit at the museum, and I'm excited we will be exhibiting polyester quilts. It will be an incredibly vibrant, dynamic exhibition, and a fresh look at quilts from the 1970s quilt revival. The exhibition will be in the summer, 2017. Stay tuned for more details.