Sudbury Historical Society - Signature Quilts

                                                  The Sudbury Historical Society, Inc. 

                                                                       presents:

                                         "SIGNATURE QUILTS & the Stories they Tell "

as told by PAMELA  WEEKS  on Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 2:00 PM in the Sudbury Town Hall.

                                                              ALL ARE WELCOME!!

                                      Plenty of time to get home for the SUPERBOWL!!

Pamela Weeks is an Author and the Curator of  the New England  Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA. 

Her paper about Potholder quilts  (One Foot Square, Quilted and  Bound)  appeared in the 2010 edition of Uncoverings.   She has recently published two books, one a study of quilts made for Civil War Soldiers, the other on Potholder Quilts.

Pamela will be speaking on SIGNATURE QUILTS, which are also called Friendship Quilts. They are usually quilts made by a group of women, to be given to a neighbor who is moving out of town. Each block usually has a signature of the person making it, and rarely, the date of the construction. Thus, when the recipient looks at the quilt months and years later  far from their old loved family and friends, it  was like looking at a picture book of all their old friends  being remembered.

                                          The Sudbury Historical Society's

                                      1850 Sudbury Friendship/Signature Quilt

                                                            and the

                                     1851 Sudbury Friendship/Signature Quilt

                                          will be on display,  along with the

                                          2000-2001 Fund raising Quilt

                      produced in order to raise the funds to pay for the first quilt!

All Sudbury Historical Society, Inc. programs are video-taped, and are available for later viewing on Sudbury Cable, even adjoining towns, or  via the Society's web-site:    www.sudbury01776.org

                                                 Thank You!

                                                 Mary Collins Vivaldi, President
                                                 and the 

                                                 Officers and Trustees of

                                                 the SUDBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY,  Inc.

                                                Web Site: www.sudbury01776.org