http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/blogs/jodie_davis/archive/tags/Q.S.O.S_2E00_/jodie+davis/Alliance+for+American+Quilts/default.aspxTags: Q.S.O.S., jodie davis, Alliance for American QuiltsenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/blogs/jodie_davis/archive/2010/04/11/this-week-machine-quilting-oral-histories-and-cotton.aspxSun, 11 Apr 2010 21:58:00 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:72657Jodie Davis7http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/blogs/jodie_davis/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=72657http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/blogs/jodie_davis/archive/2010/04/11/this-week-machine-quilting-oral-histories-and-cotton.aspx#comments<p><a href="https://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com:443/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/jodie_5F00_davis/Slater-Mill.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com:443/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/jodie_5F00_davis/Slater-Mill.jpg" style="border:0;float:left;margin:12px;" alt="" /></a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This week&nbsp;I&#39;m off to where it all started in the U.S.: Rhode Island! Samuel Slater opened the first sustainable mill to process cotton in <a href="https://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com:443/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/jodie_5F00_davis/QSOS-Pin.jpg"><img border="0" width="222" src="https://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com:443/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/jodie_5F00_davis/QSOS-Pin.jpg" height="270" style="border:0;float:right;" alt="" /></a>1793. It was the birth of the American Industrial Revolution.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.slatermill.org/">Slater Mill Pawtucket, Rhode Island</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>What a perfect place to hold <a href="http://www.mqxshow.com/Public/Home/index.cfm">MQX, the Machine Quilters Exposition</a>. (And a whole lot more!)</p> <p>While&nbsp;there&nbsp;I will be conducting some interviews for Quilters Save Our Stories, an oral history project of the Alliance for American Quilts.&nbsp;To get an idea of what I&#39;ll be up to, <a href="http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/qsos/">visit the Q.S.O.S. site</a>. Thanks Handi Quilter for sponsoring the transcribing, etc. to turn the interviews into web content.</p> <p>All this and I get to visit with my sis in my home state. Happiness!</p> <p>~Jodie</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=72657" width="1" height="1">jodie davisAlliance for American QuiltsSlaterQ.S.O.S.MQX