An update from Victoria Martin on ‘Talking Quilts’, a national oral history project that is recording, preserving and sharing the UK’s rich and diverse quilting heritage through the stories of today’s quilters…

From the Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles, based in York, which has received a grant of £89,100 for a three year oral history project, ‘Talking Quilts: saving quilters’ stories’. This will be led by volunteers and aims to ‘document, preserve and share the UK’s rich and diverse quilting heritage and the stories of quilters.