Quilts That Blew Our Minds

Irma Gail Hatcher created this quilt, “Conway Album - I’m Not From Baltimore”, and took the quilting world by storm in 1992. This quilt won multiple awards and captured many hearts. You can still get the pattern and blow the minds of your family and friends.

Irma Gail made this quilt and wrote a book on how to make it in a little over a year. It won a Blue Ribbon and the Founder's Award at the 1992 A/IQA Show Houston, Blue Ribbons in Dallas, Silver Dollar City, and Riverside, California, best of Show at 1993 Quilt America! -- 1994 Gingher Award for Excellence in Workmanship and $10,000 at the AQS Show. In 1995 it won NQA's Masterpiece Quilt Award and was selected as one of the 100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century in 1999, and appeared on the cover of the book. It also appeared on the covers of Quilter's Newsletter magazine, April, 1993, and Quilts - A World of Beauty, fall, 1992. It is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of the American Quilter's Society (MAQS) in Paducah, Kentucky.

“Conway Album Quilt (I’m not from Baltimore)” by Irma Gail Hatcher