Join us for our February 12 2026 Guild Meeting!
7pm Live in Person and via Zoom
With special guest Mary Fons, via Zoom
"We Need to Talk About Bertha"
We are very excited to host quilting royalty, Mary Fons. Mary is Mariane Fons’ daughter and has forged her own path in the quilting world. She will share her vast knowledge of quilt history with us while taking us on a treasure hunt!
Mary Fons is a writer, editor, and live-streamer who specializes in quilt history
and the life of quilts in popular culture. Her livestream broadcast, Quilt Nerd,
airs twice a week on Twitch.
Since 2016, Mary has worked in various capacities at Quiltfolk, serving as editor of Quiltfolk magazine (2017-2021), and contributes currently as a writer and online workshop instructor. In 2023, she became the creative director
behind the Quiltfolk Foundry project. Prior to that, Mary was editor and creativedirector of Quilty magazine, and developed, produced, and hosted more than 250 episodes of Quilty, a how-to show for beginner quilters on YouTube with combined views in the millions. On television, Mary hosted or co-hosted Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting on PBS alongside her mother, Marianne Fons.
She is the author of Make & Love Quilts: Scrap Quilts for the 21st Century (C&T/StashBooks) and Dear Quilty (F&W Media). She has served as a columnist for Quilts, Inc., and her articles on quilt history and culture haveappeared in publications such as Quiltfolk, Blanket Statements, Curated Quilts, Modern Patchwork, and Love of Quilting, among others
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