Olivia Joseph

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Ologies with Alie Ward · Culcitology (QUILTS) with Luke Haynes, Olivia Joseph, and Joe Cunningham · 26 Feb 2026 podcast

And I was just blown away.

Turned out that she was engaged in documenting a quilt collection.

She had gotten a grant to do this and she had to produce a catalog of all 300 quilts.

And she was enjoying the process, but dreading writing the catalog.

And I myself had a year of community college writing classes.

And I said, well, I could write that catalog for you.

She said, well, you'd have to know something about the history of quilts, wouldn't you?

So I volunteered to read all the available literature, which at that time was, this is 1979.

There was about five or six books.

So I read all of those books about quilt history with any scholarly intent.

And then at one point she came over to my apartment and said, with a quilt and a hoop and a thimble and needle and thread, and said, if you're going to write about quilts, you should know how to quilt.

And then...

We teamed up and made quilts together and wrote books and everything all through the 80s and built a house on an island.

That's right.

So I didn't have any previous interest in quilts.

I'd never been particularly handy.

Yes, there's that, I think.

In high school, the only class that I really liked was art history.

And so I was sort of predisposed to study quilt history, you know.

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