Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary

SESQUICENTENNIAL-AMERICA’S FOUNDING WOMEN

by Alice McElwain

A program about women of America’ s past and their influence on our country.  This presentation will introduce you to six women and quilts that have a connection to each woman.

McElwain is an American Quilter’s Society Certified Quilt Appraiser. She also judges quilt shows and gives programs to quilt guilds, clubs and organizations.  She is also a member of the Professional Association of Appraisers of Quilted Textiles.     

McElwain is also a member of the American Quilt Society as well as the American Quilt Study Group and continues to participate in continuing education for her profession.    In addition, she is a quilt teacher since 1976, owned and operated a quilt shop in Southwest Kansas and participated in the Kansas Quilt Documentation in 1986. She was acknowledged in the book Kansas Quilts and Quilters, by Brackman, Chinn, Davis, Thompson, Hornback and Farley.   McElwain has judged quilt competitions and shows since 1989 at fairs, quilt guilds and private venues.    In 1992 her quilt, “Showing Homes” won Honorable Mention in the National Quilt Association Annual Small Guilds Quilt Show. Ragi Marino’s book Flying High features one of her mini-quilts and was accepted for the traveling exhibit and is now permanently housed at the Liberal Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas. Her quilt “Shrove Tuesday” was chosen for the cover of the Liberal Pancake Day program in 2006. The quilt also won first place in the Pancake Day quilt competition. Many of her quilts have won numerous awards, ribbons and honors.    She continues to teach, lead quilt a local quilt study group, present programs, judge quilts, and appraise quilts. McElwain is also a member of M.O.K.A., a quilt study group of Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas.