Quilting Arts - USA (2021 - Spring)

As a college student, QUILTING

ARTS founder Patricia “Pokey”

Chatham Bolton interned at

a start-up B-to-B fi nancial

magazine. Although she wasn’t

much interested in fi nance, the

internship led to a job there and

ignited a passion for magazines.

Fast-forward a few years and

Pokey, then a full-time teacher

working on her doctorate,

picked up quilting as a diversion

during a holiday break. Fabric

and stitch soon consumed her.

She connected with an informal

group of crazy quilters and saw an

opportunity to merge her passion

for magazines with her new fi ber

art obsession. Pokey decided

to take a risk: she quit her job,

paused her doctoral program, and

started QUILTING ARTS MAGAZINE,

with a focus on crazy quilting.

“I had no expectation or idea

it would be anything more than

a niche, subscription-based,

desktop-published magazine,”

said Pokey. “But it took off by the

third issue, with stores asking

me for wholesale terms—what

were those? I also knew by then

I needed to expand the focus

beyond crazy quilting to all genres

of art quilting, as crazy quilting

alone wouldn’t sustain it.”

FALL 2009 -

Special Issue: International Quilt Festival:

Quilt Scene Magazine

2011
The Best of Quilting Arts
2008 by Pokey Bolton
The Quilting Arts Book
by Pokey Bolton

2011

Headquarters move to

Sudbury, Massachusetts

2008 -

Special Issue: Quilting Arts Gifts

2009

First “Quilting Arts Workshop”

videos debut

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“There’s a Place Called Mars” • Judy Coates Perez  Photo by Korday Studio