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The Alliance of American Quilts Quilters' S.O.S.--Save our Stories programs records the history of quilters and their quilts through interviews.  It is a great place of find inspiration and to learn about the quilting tradition. (You might remember they interviewed Ricky's Dad.)

Once in a while a story just strikes you and you have to share it.  This is one of those stories.  It is about Louise Carter of Abbot, Maine.  Louise is 100 years old and continues to quilt, although she has yet to try a rotary cutter.  Here is just a tidbit of her story from the AAQ website, click here to read more and to find out more about the program.

This is Jeanne Wright (JW). Today's date is August 22, 2010. It's 10:10 in the morning and I'm interviewing Mrs. Louise Carter (LC) at her home in Abbot, Maine for the Alliance for American Quilts, 'Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories' project. Mrs. Carter has let us come into her home and talk with her this morning about quilting. [Mrs. Carter is joined by a friend of hers Pat Huckins (PH). Mrs. Carter is quite hard of hearing and Pat will help us from time to time. For questions which Mrs. Carter did not hear and had to be repeated to her, I will not note the repetition. Mrs. Carter turned 100 years old this year and is somewhat, and I'll emphasize, only somewhat, disabled in that she has only one arm! You will see that having only one arm is not much of an impediment to her life.]