Laura A Paré – See You In August: The Quilts of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (2025)

RUN, do not walk, to get a copy of Laura Pare’s FABULOUS new book about the quilts made by women at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. This is a MUST for every woman who ever attended MichFest… and a powerful history to share with young women who never had the chance to attend MichFest! Laura Pare’s labor of love to preserve photos and stories of these quilts shines through this treasure of women’s history and art. For 30 years, MichFest women came together with the leadership of an expert quilter to create quilts, most where there was a theme and women made blocks for the quilt. Then, at the festival, the actual quilting was done in a perpetual quilting bee and literally thousands of women over the years added stitches, embellishments. Each year, one lucky woman won the quilt in the festival’s fundraising raffle. I just got my copy of the book and it has MANY, MANY photos of the quilts and the women making the quilts and stories about each of the quilts. This is a GORGEOUS and TRULY amazing history of a vital part of MichFest culture. The MichFest quilts are part of a LONG lineage of women working together to create beautiful quilts! And, yes, I was one of the women who made blocks for many of the quilts and many of my quilt blocks are in the photos in the book. Wow, oh wow, oh wow!! Get a copy for yourself and copies for all of your friends! And, get a copy for your local library!!!