Bring your vintage quilts, blocks, or tops and ask for advice. The question of what to do with older textiles plaques many owners of handmade quilts. Bonnie has studied this topic extensively and can offer suggestions on the care, storage, display, sale, or donation of vintage quilts. This program addresses how best to decide what to do with a vintage quilt, including evaluating its age, condition and provenance (its story). Bonnie will bring examples to show, and attendees are encouraged to bring one or two quilts, tops, or block sets for discussion. Bonnie Dwyer, the "Quilt Whisperer", has Maine roots and raised her family there while also pursuing a degree in library science. Always a lifelong learner, Bonnie expanded her interest in the needle arts by taking up quilting in the mid-1980s. She studied quilt history, fabric dating, quilt repair and restoration, and quilt appraising, earning national certification by the American Quilter's Society in 2006. www.bonniedwyer.com This free program supports the new exhibition," Wings Falls Quilters Guild Celebrates 40 Years of Quilting 1977 to 2017" on view in the Folklife Gallery from January 18 to July 7, 2017. This exhibition and its programs are produced by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, and funded in part by the Leo Cox Beach Philanthropic Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts-Folk Arts Program supported by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature.