“I am a quilter, an African American quilter, who quilts when I can, and what I make isn’t phenomenal,” said Nicole McClelland. “Why would you want to talk to me?” Nicole laughs, and from the other end of the phone, the energy of someone who loves quilting without any agenda is palpable. The South Carolina-based quilter started quilting when she noticed that her husband’s love for football made her, as she calls it, a quilting widow. “I began to take classes to make my mother a quilt,” said McClelland. “I started with a tedious log cabin quilt, and I found I enjoyed it.”
