Quilters' Heritage Celebration 2004: Garrett, Barbara

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Garrett, Barbara

Aug 20, 2006, 02:08 pm

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Barbara Garrett is from Chester County, Pennsylvania and has been quilting for over 35 years. For more than 20 years now, she has been active in researching the history of quilts and quiltmaking. She has worked extensively on the quilt documentation projects in Berks, Bucks,
Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Franklin Counties in south-eastern and south-central Pennsylvania and was a consultant for both the Schuylkill County and York County documentation projects. Barbara is also one of
the contributing writers for the York County documentation book, Quilts: The Fabric of Friendship. A designer and maker of historic doll quilts, she uses her evolving collection of doll quilts to illustrate her
lecture, With A Mother's Love, which discusses the history of quiltmaking in the United States from 1780 to 1940. Her pattern line, Historic Doll Quilts, provides instructions for reproducing many of her doll quilts. Her quilts have appeared in A Quiltie Ladie's Garden Journal by the Variable Star Quilters, America's Best Quilting Projects
by Rodale Press, and Miniature Quilts Magazine. Barbara has also been a guest on the cable show Simply Quilts, discussing Pennsylvania German quilts of the late 1800s. Her original УMany Triangles FeedsackФ Quilt was
the demonstration quilt on another segment of this show. Four quilts in her Doll Quilt Pattern Line were inspired by quilts in The Passing On The Comfort Exhibit, and the patterns are part of the Mennonite Central
Committee Traveling Exhibit. As a member of the American Quilt Study Group and several regional Antique Quilt Study Groups, she actively continues her research in antique quilts and the women who made them. In addition to her lectures, Barbara also offers instruction in both
beginning quiltmaking and doll quilt construction through workshops for guilds and quilt shops.