HEAVENLY PATCHWORK - Quilt Stories Stitched with Love


First Place book award winners at the 2006 OWFI regional conference in the published category	First Place book award winners at the 2006 OWFI regional conference in the unpublished category

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Owner of BuckboardQuilts and Quilt Historian Judy Howard’s non-fiction quilt books transport you into the hearts and lives of pioneer and contemporary quilters. These motivating vignettes renew your hope, inspire your faith as everyday heroines stitch true tales of courage against insurmountable obstacles into heart-warming patchwork. Each leaves behind a legacy of love and faith in God to future generations. Observe as each brave woman pieces brokenness into beauty and forges the way into a brighter tomorrow. Like a magic carpet transporting us back in time, quilts stitch our past to the present. Judy’s Centennial Stitches Quilt Trunk Show Programs reveal our history, and quilters’ thoughts, prayers and emotional journeys and explore the meaning quilts have in the lives of their makers and their recipients. Judy’s God Bless America Touring Patriotic Quilt Exhibits inspire patriotism and love of God and Country and thank our soldiers. Call 405-751-3885 to reserve the exhibit for only $100 with all profits from books and exhibits going to non-profit groups who create quilts for wounded soldiers and families of the fallen. Follow links for reading sample stories, ordering books for gifts or fund-raising, for viewing photos of 300 patriotic quilts touring America, historic antique quilts included in the Quilt Trunk Show Programs, for entering your quilt to win a free book and a chance at $2500 in corporate prizes, and for reserving the exhibit for your next quilt show.

All book profits go to non-profit groups making charity quilts.

Since 1976, Judy Howard has owned and operated Buckboard Antiques and Quilts in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Her love of quilts developed while taking a class from nationally renowned fiber artist Terrie Mangat. Judy became a charter member of the Oklahoma Quilt Guild, and antique quilts became her specialty.

Julia Roberts, America’s sweetheart, likes to give Wedding Ring quilts when her family and friends marry. Jessica Lange and Dustin Hoffman are also celebrity clients - Dustin purchasing seventeen quilts while he was in town filming Rainman.

Judy recently moved her shop home to concentrate on her web business and write. Her mail order business offers photos of 200 antique quilts. Visit www.BuckboardQuilts.com to view her online inventory of quality quilts at affordable prices.

Editor Rhonda Richards honored Judy by featuring Buckboard Quilts in their book Great American Quilts 2004. Many of Judy’s articles and quilts are showcased in quilt magazines and books.

After graduating in 1966 with honors from Oklahoma Baptist University and doing graduate work at Oklahoma State University, Judy and her husband Bill purchased and operated Howard Equipment Company for ten years. Then, quilting won her heart!

Heavenly Patchwork I and II and Centennial Stitches were awarded Golden Seals as official Oklahoma Centennial Book Projects. Both Heavenly Patchwork I and II received Best Non Fiction Book in the published and non-published category of the Oklahoma Writer’s Federation Regional Contest. Two stories appear in Chicken Soup books.

Judy now presents quilt trunk show programs with story telling, which includes 50 quilts dating back to 1837. She also sponsored the Oklahoma Centennial Quilt Contest and offered the collection of eighty-five winning quilts as a traveling exhibit and published them in Centennial Stitches—Oklahoma History in Quilts, a full-color, coffee-table book.

Judy currently is sponsoring the God Bless America Quilt Contest and Exhibits that are available for $100 for a four day rental (free to military and veteran groups) with all profits going to provide quilts for wounded soldiers and families of the fallen. See Judy’s latest full-color book, Thanking our Troops—God Bless America Touring Quilts, which won second place in the Heartland New Day BookFest. To schedule a program, book signing, exhibit, see/purchase her quilts and books call 405-751-3885 or email BuckboardQuilts@cox.net.

All book profits go to non-profit organizations that make charity quilts. Contact Dorcas Publishing for quantity book discounts for fund-raising opportunities, and to order books for Mother’s Day, Christmas, birthday and other gift needs for quilt-loving friends and family at: 405-751-3885, 12101 N. MacArthur, Suite 137, Oklahoma City, OK 73162-1800, dorcaspublishing@cox.net or BuckboardQuilts@cox.net

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