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Marianne Fons
Interviewed by Elizabeth Townsend Gard
Date March 2018
Famous quilter Marianne Fons (and mother of Mary) joins us. She talks about a notice for a quilting class during the bicentennial, where Liz Porter was also in the class. "There was no rotary cuter." There were six sessions in this first class.
Topics
“At Home with Marianne Fons,” event in September 2018
Quilting before Bicentennial
Love of Quilting
- With Liz
- With Mary
Quilter's Complete Guide (1993)
Quilts of Valor - serve on the National Board
2018 Live Renuion with Liz Porter
Creating Fons and Porter
Selling Fons and Porter
Quilty
Started Television
Started magazine; 1/2 million. Circulation began to rise
Sold business in 2006
Writing a Novel
International Quilts Study Center
Building an empire
Sponsorship
Raising Kids
Non-binary kids
Working with your kid
Teaching on TV/Teaching on the Internet
Your blog
You literary agent for your novel
Iowa Quilt Museum
Fons and Porter
Quilting as a young or old activity?
Hannah Fons TedX Talk: "Neither he, nor she but me"
The mutual admiration society