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Lunch & Lecture at the Historic
Boone Tavern Hotel
"The Story Behind The Mystique
of Kentucky Quilts"
with Merikay Waldvogel
Saturday, August 2nd, 12:00 noon
Tickets $22 - Please make
reservations
859-985-9317 |
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Hear the story of the making of
Kentucky's Quiltmaking Fame. Beginning with the publication of
Aunt Jane of Kentucky at the turn of the 20th century, quilts
made in Kentucky the old-fashioned way captured the attention of
magazine editors. By the 1930s, there was a robust business of
professional quiltmaking in towns across Kentucky thanks to this
national attention. In 1933, six quilts from Kentucky reached the
final round of judging in the 1933 Sears Quilt Contest, which
attracted over 24,000 entries, proof again of the high standards of
Kentucky quilts. Ironically, Aunt Jane's patchwork quilts, the
source of the mystique, would not have won the prizes in that
contest.
Merikay will share color slides of
quilts made in Kentucky to illustrate the stories of the Sears
National Quilt Contest, Stearns & Foster's quilters in Eastern
Kentucky, Eleanor Beard's quilt business in Hardinsburg, and others.
Attendees are encouraged to bring quilts, scrapbooks, and stories of
their own Kentucky quiltmaking heritage.
Merikay Waldvogel has made a
career of quilt research. Growing up in the Midwest, she did not
have quilts in her family. One quilt collected in Chicago where she
was teaching at the time changed her life and work. When she moved
to Knoxville, Tennessee in 1977, she began collecting quilts and
quilt stories in earnest. With Bets Ramsey, she co-directed the
Quilts of Tennessee Survey and wrote Quilts of Tennessee: Images
of Domestic Life Prior to 1930. In 1990 she wrote Soft Covers
for Hard Times: Quiltmaking and the Great Depression, the first
book devoted to mid-20th century quiltmaking. With Barbara Brackman,
she researched quilts in the 1933 Sears National Quilt Contest and
wrote a highly regarded book Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933
Chicago World’s Fair.
She has served on the Board of
Directors of the American Quilt Study Group and the Alliance for
American Quilts. She has curated numerous quilt exhibits, lectures
widely, and writes for quilting magazines.
Merikay has a brand new book out
Childhood Treasures: Doll Quilts Made By And For Children.
Copies will be available at the lecture. Copies are also available
through www.goodbooks.com.
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