O.V. Speaks Quilts

As part of the festivities surrounding my exhibit Long Time Coming: A Retrospective of O.V. Brantley’s Red and White Quilts, I will lead...

As part of the activities of Long Time Coming: A Retrospective of O.V. Brantley's Red and White Quilts, I will participate in an Artist...

Follow me to Freedom started with 6 inch Underground Railroad blocks in red and white. I wanted an Underground Railroad quilt made with...

I hope you enjoy the exhibit.

Installation of my red and white quilt exhibit was creative and fun. I was determined to have quilts hanging from the ceiling, so my...

Colored Girl Lawyer Rocks! documents my lawyer life in cloth. Somehow I managed to make it from my little segregated town of 6000 people...

After taking a class taught by Aleathia Chisolm at the 2022 Atlanta Quilt Festival to learn the Siddi Kawandi technique and finishing my...

I spent this week taking 20 years of red and white quilts out of storage. I caressed them and reminisced about why I made them. I gave...

Daughter India and I made the trip to the National quilt Museum in Paducah, KY to attend the opening reception for Say Your Piece --...

My quilt Begin Again has been sold and shipped to her new home in Lawrenceville, NJ. I really hated to see her go because I loving...

The Kendeda Fund booked my Leadership Memory Quilt Workshop which includes the creation of a commissioned quilt. During the workshop, I...

Are you working on a project that requires a lot of half square triangles? If so, the easiest way to make them is to use half square...

Why not celebrate coffee day with a quilt? I love coffee, so coffee often finds its way into my quilts. Whenever I travel out of the...

When you have secret plans for your red and white quilt exhibit that are too big to be completed alone, you call in your best creative...

Is it ever too late to present the happy couple their wedding quilt? No! My daughter India and son-in-law Eric officially married October...

I took a Kawandi class last month at the Atlanta Quilt Festival. Kawandi is the quilting technique used by women of African descent in...

This week the Welcome All Quilters learned to make curves. Tanya Heldman demonstrated the technique on the drunkard's path block. Tanya...

Anticipation builds. Fall is my favorite time of the year. My quilt Almost Fall has plenty of summer yellow, but those fallish golds are...

On the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral we can all reflect on the qualities of a great queen — duty, service grace and joy. So today I...

Saturday, the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild met in person for the first time since the Covid pandemic closed everything. During...