Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories

Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories is continually capturing the voices and stories of quiltmakers and adding the interviews here. These interviews were conducted by volunteers from across the country. We appreciate the dedication and generosity of their efforts. We are always looking for guilds, organizations and individuals to undertake their own Q.S.O.S. projects and join us.

If you require more information about either an interview or how to join us, please email Q.S.O.S.. The Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories project and the Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories Manual are sole properties of The Alliance for American Quilts. Copyright 2000-2005. Any group desiring to use the copyrighted name of “Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories” and/or “The Alliance for American Quilts” in conjunction with a proposed oral history project must adhere to the policies and procedures set forth in the Manual.

 

WHAT YOU WILL FIND:

• TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEWS WITH QUILTMAKERS - we currently have hundreds of transcribed interviews archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Most of these are continuously being made available for you online. Feel free to browse through and through their own words, feel and "see" the passion that these quilters have for quiltmaking. (Interview pages are optimized for Internet Explorer 6.0)

• PHOTOGRAPHS OF QUILTS - see the many different styles of quilts that quiltmakers have created as you peruse the transcribed interviews.

• DOWNLOADABLE HOW-TO MANUAL - start a Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories of your own! This manual has been painstakingly put together to show you step by step how to interview a quiltmaker, how to transcribe the interviews, how to preserve the transcriptions, and how to present what you have done.