You may remember the feature in the February 2015 issue by Talking Quilts Project Manager Vicky Martin. The project has been going from strength to strength since then and the Talking Quilts Committee invited me to attend a reception to celebrate the success of Talking Quilts: Saving Quilter’s Stories and the project’s exhibition, ‘Talking Quilts: Family Connections’ which was on display at the Festival of Quilts, Birmingham in August.

It’s almost five years since Dr Pauline Macaulay brought together a group of passionate quilters to brainstorm the idea of an oral history project to record the stories of people who quilt. Here, our Features Editor, Jane Rae, who has been involved with the project since those early days, shares some reflections on the value of oral history and discovers that Project Manager, Vicky Martin, has been doing more than just talking about quilts.