Gwen Marston, author of Mary Schafer, American Quilt Maker, discusses her nearly thirty-year friendship with Schafer, and Schafer’s importance as both a quilter and quilt historian. Marston, herself an award-winning quilter and quilt instructor, developed the initial grant project to document the Schafer collection and organized a number of exhibits featuring Schafer’s quilts. As she writes in the introduction to her book, “The Mary Schafer story is the story of a little immigrant girl who learned to use a needle. With her needle, she stitched a life for herself, and made piles and piles of beautiful quilts as well.” Included in museum admission.
