Quilting Quotes

We have people interested in fiber arts, quilting, sculpture -- any of the visual arts in quite a variety of media. - Jeanne Board

Three- to six-day workshops are scheduled year-round at the historic Greenville Arms 1889 Bed & Breakfast Inn in upstate New York's scenic Hudson Valley/Catskills region. Choose from watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, drawing and collage, plus fiber art and quilting. Instructors are nationally recognized artists. - Dorlene Kaplan

This new quilting is easier to piece when time is an issue. (Quilters) love hard work. We also love being quick, and we don't feel guilty. - Nancy Laussade

That's just been her beat out in that part of the county. There are towns that she reports on that don't exist anymore. It's just the basics. It's like the old quilting-bee kind of news where you just catch up with people through conversations. - Dave Bell

Quilting won't die out. I think there was a decline of it in the '50s and '60s, but it started to come back in the late '70s, early '80s. - Judy Henderson

Quilting has evolved. It's still evolving. It's gone from necessity into visual arts... - Ginny Moe

Quilting has become an art. We're dedicated not only to old-fashioned piecing but also to develop awareness of fabrics and textiles as art forms. - Wanda Wagner

Occasionally, we'll get teenagers. Most are sewers. Some have mothers who sewed. The older people quilting now are doing it because they always wanted to quilt but never had the time. - Diane McColley