Holland Expatchers / Eemnes, Netherlands Freedom Quilters: Mirtha Valk, Dorothy Wilson, Sabine Kohrs, Cathy Vincent, Gill de Vries, Joanne Pomerantz, Jackie van Ommen, Vivienne Bourke, Deborah Gibson-Smith, Barbara Wittenberg, Mary Beth Holland and Ruth Grimes We are a...
Freedom Quilter: Jane Swanson / Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA I have sewn all my life: clothes, costumes, drapes, toys, school projects, art projects, backdrops and upholstery. But have only been quilting in the last couple years. I find making quilts the...
Freedom Quilters: Patty Hockman / Missouri and Lori Pool / Oklahoma, USA Patty Hockman lives in Missouri, and her daughter, Lori Pool currently resides in Oklahoma. Patty was taught to sew by her mother. She in turn taught Lori to...
Mother-Daughters Quilt Ministry (Florida Branch) Freedom Quilter: Sarah Pennel / West Palm Beach, Florida, USA This year Mother-Daughters Quilt Ministry will again have two quilts in the auction. One was made by the Ohio branch of the ministry and...
Mother-Daughters Quilt Ministry Freedom Quilters: Mary Dobush (Wellington), Lydia Weasner (Bellevue), Hannah Weasner (Bellevue) and Elizabeth Griffin (Clyde). Mother-Daughters Quilt Ministry was born from the work and legacy of Marian Griffin–the ‘Mother’ (and Grandmother). Marian sewed many quilts...
While on a recent trip to work with our justice partners in Kolkata, I set aside a morning to take a walking tour of the city’s back streets. As Ifte, my friend and guide, was talking, a man carrying...
