The Quilt Fiction Podcast

The Quilt Fiction Podcast

55 episodes

The Quilting Life on the Written Page, as read to you by award-winning author Frances O'Roark Dowell (Birds in the Air, Margaret Goes Modern, Dovey Coe, Shooting the Moon). In Season One, Friendship Album, 1933, tells a heart-warming story of strangers brought together by quilting and made into family. In Season Two, Dowell reads Aunt Jane of Kentucky by Eliza Calvert Hall. First published in 1907 and set in rural western Kentucky in the late nineteenth century, the book recounts an elderly quilt-maker Aunt Jane’s memories of life in the rural south as told to an unnamed younger woman visitor. The book was hugely popular in its time, reaching over a million readers, and President Theodore Roosevelt was one of Aunt Jane’s biggest fans.

Podcasts

A New Friendship Album Christmas Story: Starry Night | Emmeline (1919)

Published: Dec. 21, 2023, 5:44 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 7 seconds

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Chapters from a new, contemporary Milton Falls story

Published: March 29, 2023, 3:21 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 59 seconds

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Magic Fabric, Quilts... and Love - 'Persimmon Moon: A Quilting Story"

Published: Feb. 19, 2023, 7:54 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 35 seconds

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A Conversation with (and a Short Story by) Marianne Fons

Published: Jan. 21, 2023, 2:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 48 seconds

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Dorothy's Christmas Star: A Quilting Story

Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 3:31 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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Crazy Quilt: A Christmas Story — Eula, 1932

Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 8:38 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 19 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky - Episode Ten

Published: May 22, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 29 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky - Episode 9

Published: May 15, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 31 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky - Episode 8

Published: May 8, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 2 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky - Episode Seven

Published: May 1, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 42 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky - Episode Six

Published: April 24, 2020, 1:40 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 26 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky - Episode Five

Published: April 17, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 45 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky - Episode Four

Published: April 10, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 24 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky -- Episode Three

Published: April 3, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 50 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky -- Chapter Three

Published: April 3, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 50 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky - Episode Two

Published: March 27, 2020, 6:33 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 8 seconds

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Aunt Jane of Kentucky - Episode One

Published: March 23, 2020, 7:51 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 39 seconds

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Dresden Plate (Florence 1930): A Friendship Album Story

Published: Dec. 20, 2019, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds

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Turkey in the Straw, Bess 1925: A Friendship Album Story

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 56 seconds

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Picnic Basket, 1902 (A Friendship Album Story)

Published: Oct. 25, 2019, 1:38 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 13 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 39

Published: April 26, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 23 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 38

Published: April 19, 2019, 5:18 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 47 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 37

Published: April 12, 2019, 4 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 1 second

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 36

Published: April 5, 2019, 4 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 25 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 35

Published: March 29, 2019, 4:13 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 32 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 34

Published: March 22, 2019, 4 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 33

Published: March 15, 2019, 4 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 20 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 32

Published: March 8, 2019, 5:25 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 36 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 31

Published: March 1, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 45 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 30

Published: Feb. 15, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 29

Published: Feb. 8, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 16 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933, Episode 28

Published: Feb. 1, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 27

Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 55 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 26

Published: Jan. 18, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 46 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 25

Published: Jan. 11, 2019, 4:36 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 33 seconds

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Bonus Episode: A Friendship Album Christmas, 1932

Published: Dec. 22, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 1 second

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 24

Published: Dec. 21, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 48 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 23

Published: Dec. 14, 2018, 5:04 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 3 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 22

Published: Dec. 7, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 53 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 21

Published: Nov. 30, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 45 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 20

Published: Nov. 16, 2018, 5:21 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 43 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 19

Published: Nov. 9, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 7 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 18

Published: Nov. 2, 2018, 4 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 17

Published: Oct. 26, 2018, 4 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 44 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 16

Published: Oct. 19, 2018, 4 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 15

Published: Oct. 13, 2018, 6:35 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 45 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 14

Published: Oct. 5, 2018, 4 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 8 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 13

Published: Sept. 28, 2018, 3:18 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 12

Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 4 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 47 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 11

Published: Sept. 14, 2018, 4 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 10

Published: Sept. 7, 2018, 3:48 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 14 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 9

Published: Aug. 3, 2018, 2:05 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 42 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 8

Published: July 27, 2018, 4:15 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 10 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 7

Published: July 20, 2018, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 17 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 6

Published: July 13, 2018, 4 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 5

Published: July 6, 2018, 4:05 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 14 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 4

Published: June 29, 2018, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 46 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 3

Published: June 22, 2018, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 30 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 2

Published: June 15, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 55 seconds

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Friendship Album, 1933: Episode 1

Published: June 6, 2018, 3:11 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 6 seconds

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