Abstract:
In the 1960s Sally Palmer Field began her campaign to keep quilting alive. A trained Home Economist, she set the standard for quilt teachers, while inspiring children and adults in New England and at national business conferences. She co-owned a quilt shop when few existed. She staged Massachusetts’ earliest quilt shows, co-founded the New England Quilt Guild, and became its first president. Traveling from Maine to Virginia and throughout Britain, Sally did pioneered research on textiles and quilt-history. This biography of a dynamic personality chronicles both women’s roles and quilting’s resurgence. Color images on an attached CD show Sally’s quilts.