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The Colorado Quilting Council held its first gathering on July 29, 1978 at the Hiwan Homestead Museum in Evergreen. In a year’s time, as we return once again to the place of our beginning, the Council had grown from a casual group of women with a common interest, into an organization of very gifted fiber artists and craftswomen. Once a dream in the minds of a few who wished to preserve an art form with roots in our domestic heritage, the Colorado Quilting Council is a reality today with a desire to promote a professional attitude toward quilting in a spirit of our pioneer background. We look forward to the future with pride in our work and seek to spread an appreciation of this fine art.

~F.A. Nixon
as taken from the Colorado Quilting Council's First Anniversary Yearbook

Founding Members

Marie Adams
Hilda Cook
Sandy Crain
VIrginia Gibson
Betty Hall
Janice Hayek
Della Hemminger
Helen Huddleston
Marjorie Kerr
Susan Kerr
Janet Lyles
Betty McGahhey
Sally Martin
Poppy Morse
Francine Nixon
Jan Partain
Jean Roesler
June Ryker
Shirley Sanden
Auriel Sandstead
Karen Sandstead
Shirley Schmidt
Minnie Schneider
Jeni Trine
Marion Walker
Bobbie Wilson