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"Grandma" is Gloria Leonard Hall of Palmyra, Nebraska. She first gained an interest in quilting as a young girl while watching the volunteer ladies at her church work on a double wedding ring quilt. "I watched them quilt and quilt and thought, 'Someday!'" Qualifications Gloria has taken five national seminars in textile/fabric historical research. She has attended the appraisal school of Barbara Brackman and Terry Clothier Thompson (of Lawrence, Kansas) and is a qualified fabric appraiser. She also lectures on antique quilts and has presented workshops at a local community college about quilt and fabric dating. Gloria has bought and sold nearly 1,000 quilts to clients from Washington, D.C. to Hollywood and from Japan to England. She shows her prized quilts at events throughout the country each year, the highlight of which is the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas. Personal Gloria lives on an acreage outside of Palmyra, near Lincoln, Nebraska, where the Nebraska City cutoff of the Oregon Trail passes by her land. Her most treasured quilt is an elongated nine-patch with unglazed English chintz from the 1830s. It was pieced and quilted by a 10-year-old girl. The documentation as to the quilter and date are written on the back, making it a rare piece. Gloria is active in the Lincoln (NE) Quilters Guild, the American Quilt Society, the American Quilt Study Group, Basket Cases, and Celestial Quilters. To learn more about Grandma's Quilts, or to make an appointment to see quilts at her showroom, please contact Gloria at the addresses below: |
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