Dear Gina and readers of QuiltersBuzz,

Gina, I enjoyed reading your challenge to the readers of QuiltersBuzz to nominate someone to the QuiltersBuzz Quilter's Hall of Fame. It is always interesting and informative to read other quilters' stories about who influenced them as well as the experience of their own "quilting times".

The Quilters Hall of Fame, founded in 1979 and now located in Marion, IN, in the restored home of quilt designer and author Marie Webster, began its efforts in the early days of the late 20th century quilt revival. The challenge was to ferret out those women (and men) who kept quilting history alive in the first half of the 20th century as well as those who were making significant contributions during the then current revival, such a Jean Ray Laury, Jonathan Holstein and Gail van der Hoof, Bonnie Leman, Jinny Beyer, Cuesta Benberry, Sally Garroute, etc. It wasa time when few were giving  quilting history any serious attention.

It is truly amazing what has transpired within quilting in the last 28 years since TQHF's founding. The spread of the Internet was another huge leap forward in the capturing of quilting history. Websites such as yours have now become the latest chapter in in this on-going story. Such websites/blogs stretch the idea of "place" and "community" and effortlessly bring quilters together from all over the nation and world. Blogs and Web-communities have become the place where we now share our stories and experiences on a weekly... if not daily... basis, adding even more to the rich detail of this present early 21st century era in quilting history.

I would be curious to know how many such Web-quilt related communities your
readers belong to? How often do today's quilters post to such communities?

How many such blogs do they read weekly? What a rich resource such
web-communites will be for future quilt historians if they are archived!

Just thought I would let you know that The Quilters Hall of Fame has a new website address.  The old one is still up and we still own it but the company that voluntarily hosted us has had to step down as our server.

 
Consequently, we had to create a new website to tide us over. The OLD (which was a .org, now it is a .net) one is no longer being updated.

If you would be so kind as to change the link on your website or the link in your Bookmark folder to the address below

http://www.quiltershalloffame.NET, it would be greatly appreciated.

Keep those needles flying and spread the word about how quilts enrich your
life and the life of our communities!

Sincerely,

Karen B. Alexander
President
The Quilters Hall of Fame
Marion, Indiana
www.quiltershalloffame.net

Gina's Ed. note: I noted that several from our list have been honored and inducted into the official Quilters Hall of Fame...including Nancy Crow, Georgia Bonesteel and Donna Wildler. And I changed the link in this previous post.