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Where Making Meets Mission: The DC Modern Quilt Guild
Washington, D.C. is not an easy place to organize anything in. Traffic is real, even on weekends. Space is expensive. Members are scattered across Maryland, D.C., and Northern Virginia, and getting them into the same room requires changing meeting locations, careful scheduling, and a relationship with a librarian in Hyattsville, Maryland, who helps navigate the 60-day booking window for public buildings.
7 Jul 2026  |  

Vanessa Villarreal: A Prescription for Creativity

Vanessa Villarreal’s 2020 move to Washington, D.C. changed her life. As a pre-med student, she took a leap of faith, discontinued her graduate program, quit her full-time job, and became...
7 Jul 2026  |  

Where Making Meets Mission: The DC Modern Quilt Guild

Washington, D.C. is not an easy place to organize anything in. Traffic is real, even on weekends. Space is expensive. Members are scattered across Maryland, D.C., and Northern Virginia, and...
7 Jul 2026  |  

Aarti Ravi: Connections That Last Forever

Aarti, who is also a woodworker, favors quilting with solids, preferring “color to be the main focus,” she said. Inspiration might come from anywhere: a cute vintage shop, for example,...
6 Jul 2026  |  

Cassandra McKee: Quilts for the Unsung

Cassandra McKee has been a grassroots organizer and social justice advocate for her entire career, but it wasn’t until a leadership retreat in 2020 that she found a way to...
21 May 2026  |  

Textiles & Community: A Long-Interwoven Pair

All the speakers at the Interwoven symposium spoke of similar themes, of the incredible capability that fiber has to tell stories, be they personal or historical, and of the importance...
15 May 2026  |  

Eliza Shepherd: How the Quilt Stories Get Passed

When a stack of worn Appalachian quilts led one collector to the story of quiltmaker Eliza Shepherd, a simple antiques find became a journey into family history, resilience, and remembrance....
13 Apr 2026  |  

Love You to Pieces: A Q&A With Amy Barickman

Amy Barickman is an author, creative, maker, and vintage collector who's recent publication, Love You To Pieces celebrates the threads that connect us, through vintage quilts, dollmaking traditions, and timeless...
13 Apr 2026  |  

Always a Teacher

Jeri Cook’s career as a teacher and administrator in the Houston Independent School District extends to her passion for quilting. Taught by her grandmother, who crafted her own quilts out...
13 Apr 2026  |  

She Bloomed in Texas

Stephanie Moss, of Cypress, bloomed in Texas. That’s the name of one of her award-winning quilts, which pays homage to her adopted home state and the woman she became. She...

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