BE INSPIRED!
Here are a few of our favorite videos to inspire you. If you can get Netflix, the documentary “The Quilters” will humble you. And the story behind the “Raja Quilt” is also a humbling experience. Pure creativity comes from within you. You do not have to have the best tools at your desposal. Be inspired! Create! Don’t procrastinate! Enjoy the process!
Netflix Documentary “The Quilters” is an inspiration. Think you can’t produce beatiful quilt creations unless you have expensive fabric and machines. Don’t miss this inspiring story of how quilts are giving the incarcerated a purpose and a skill that benefit others.
The Smithsonian National Quilt Collection that humbles and inspires.
The Amish Way shares how the Amish women make their quilts who are highly valued and sort after. Be inspired!
The Southern Quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, where the stories, traditions and love continues to this day.
The International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, NB holds the largest quilt collection in the world; over 6,000 quilts.
How to Make an American Quilt is a 1995 American drama film based on the 1991 novel by Whitney Otto by the same name. The name character’s grandmother, and her quilting group, teach the granddaughter about quilting, people and love. Hearwarming story.
The Raja Quilt of 1841 was produced on board a ship transporting criminal women. To keep them occupied during the lone voyage this goregous priceless quilt was the results of their collaboration. It is considered Australia’s oldesst and most cherished quilt.
The Quilts of Appalachia, telling the story of the past.
Preserving Navajo Stories. Susan Hudson, a Navajo/Diné artist from Sheep Springs, NM was taught to sew by her mother who was forced to sew at an “assimilation” boarding school. Hudson’s pictorial quilts honor her ancestors and the proud history of the Navajo people.
