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The 1933 Sears Quilt Contest Revisited! Presented by Quilt Alliance

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The 1933 Sears National Quilt Contest attracted 24,878 entrants vying for the grand prize of $1000 in the depths of the Great Depression. The fact that the winner may not have made the quilt and that the whereabouts of that quilt are unknown add to the intrigue and mystery swirling around this great quilt story.

Barbara Brackman and Merikay Waldvogel reminisce about their early sleuthing adventures in the 1980s, culminating in the 1993 book and exhibit Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. At the time of its publication, they had located 100 Sears Contest quilts, but not the grand-prize quilt entered by Margaret Caden of Lexington, KY.

In this Textile Talk, Barbara and Merikay will take another look at the contest, its impact, and what might have happened to the Caden Quilt.

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Mar 22, 2023 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Mar 22, 2023 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: The 1933 Sears Quilt Contest Revisited! Presented by Quilt Alliance Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ANtXfFBkS02lheqXD1UNPg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Barbara Brackman Barbara Brackman is an independent scholar and author whose focus is quilts and women’s history. She has curated numerous quilt exhibitions, including Patchwork Souvenirs (1993) with Merikay Waldvogel, and written many books including the seminal Clues in the Calico (1989). She writes two blogs: Material Culture and Civil War Quilts. She was one of the researchers and writers for the Kansas Quilt Project and is a founding member of the American Quilt Study Group, through which she has published numerous essays in the organization’s journal Uncoverings. Her most recent book is the third edition of Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns (2020). She lives in Kansas, in between the rest of the Know-It-Alls. Merikay Waldvogel Merikay Waldvogel is a quilt historian and author from Knoxville, Tennessee. Her quilt research spans a broad swath of quilt history, from 19th-century Southern quilts and patterns through 20th-century quilts and quiltmakers. Books for which she was author or co-author include: Quilts of Tennessee (1986), Soft Covers for Hard Times (1990), Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair (1993), and Southern Quilts: Surviving Relics of the Civil War (1998).

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