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Mary Schafer, 1910-2006, was inducted into the QHF in July 2007.
Photo courtesy Marsha McDowell, Michigan State University Museum.
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Lifetime achievement
Two Greats Enter QHF
Mary Vida Schafer of Flushing, Michigan, died on December 21, 2006, never
knowing she had been chosen as the 37th inductee into the Quilters Hall of Fame. Notable quilt author and designer Gwen Marston, who wrote Mary Schafer: American Quilt Maker (University of Michigan Press, 2004), spoke about Mary and her quilts during the organization's 2007 celebration July 19-22 in Marion, Indiana. Born in 1910, Mary began quilting in 1956 and spent the next 50 years researching, documenting, and reproducing traditional quilt patterns. The core of her collection now resides at the Michigan State University Museum in East Lansing.
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Helen Kelley will be inducted into the QHF in July 2008.
Helen Kelley portrait by Lifetouch Church Directories and Portraits.
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At the 2008 celebration, scheduled for July 17-20, 2008, Helen Kelley of Minneapolis, Minnesota, will be the 38th QHF inductee. Helen founded the Minnesota Quilters in 1978, a guild that today has more than 1,500 members, and her Renaissance Quilt was selected as one of the 100 best quilts of the twentieth century. Among the seven books she has written is Every Quilt Tells a Story (Voyageur Press, 2003), a compilation of "Loose Threads" columns, which she has written for Quilters Newsletter since 1983.
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