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 Folk Art Quilting Techniques with Sue Spargo and Wendy Morris
They were armed with a suitcase full of vibrant fabrics, ribbons, buttons and beads and years of quilting and workshop facilitation experience. Sue Spargo, a celebrated American folk art quilt and products’ designer, and her sister, Wendy Morris, a jeweller and professional textile dyer, were ready to put their skills into action.
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Read more... [Workshop with the quilters]
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 Till 2002 Ca was selling fish at the village market. Then she joined a first quilt group, and a few years later she became a group leader herself. She now runs like a small enterprise with 26 women employed full time. (See the video on Ca's group).
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Read more... [Ca's group of quilters]
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 Ngoc and her husband had only 500 square meters of paddy and were mostly working as daily laborers for others. Not enough to live decently, not even to pay for the treatment of their sick child.
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Read more... [Ngoc: "It has changed our lives]
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 The women work in seven groups and the group leaders are key people to the programme. The current group leaders are Sinh, Nga, Dao, Ca and Lan in Duc Linh and Nguyet and Kha in Long My. Each have become real entrepereneurs with huge responsabilities, as they manage 20 to 25 quilters!
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Read more... [The group leaders]
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 The past two years have been kinder to Lan than the many she experienced before. Raising four children as a single mother and working long hours in the fields for little pay, Lan was earning just enough to survive, if that.
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Read more... [Lan]
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 Vietnam-Quilts is a program for the women. The women in the rural villages of Bình Thuân or Hâu Giang, originally were very poor women and often desperate for work. Before the quilting project began these women would travel to far-away fields in search of work, leaving their children at home. In the worst situations the children were locked up until their mother returned in the evening or the day next. See the video which shows how the project has completely change one family's life!
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Read more... [The quilters]
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