RK chats collecting "how & why" with the Iowa Quilt Museum

I had a great time chatting with Bill and Linda virtually as part of “Tuesdays@12.” Thank you to the Iowa Quilt Museum for setting up the virtual space for these conversations! You can take a break and expand your creativity with more chats like these twice a month. They hadd recently chatted with Joe Cunningham, who facilitated the “Here Comes the Sun” exhibition up currently. Joe, the Volckening, and yours truly all have contributed sunny quilts.


About Bill & Linda Volckening

Bill and his wife, Linda, have an extensive collection of quilts and have published a variety of books, including “New York Beauty, Quilts from the Volckening Collection”. We have one of those New York Beauty’s in our Here Comes the Sun exhibit.

Bill Volckening bought his first quilt in 1989 to display on a wall in his home. He soon realized that he was going to need to rotate the quilt due to its age and value, so he bought another. It snowballed from there.

You can learn more about Bill and Linda’s adventures on his blog Wonkeyworld.

Quilt Collectors: The How and the Why

Virtual Quilt Event

18 January 2022, 12 noon CT

Watch the gallery tour of ORANGE at Hello Stitch, Berkeley

I had such a fun time with this virtual gallery tour of my ORANGE exhibition at Hello, Stitch in Berkeley! It was a pleasure to speak alongside Leslie Tucker Jenison and Michele Muska about these extraordinary quilts! And a special thank you to everyone who came as part of the live audience, especially BAMPFA’s Elaine Yau and Ashley from the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles!