The site that made the quilts
The 9-11 Memorial Quilt Project began on September 13, 2001, when Kathie Baumgardner asked on the online needlework boards for cross-stitched squares in memory of the victims. WTCQuilt.com was registered three days later, and the website became the place where the project happened. Stitchers read the guidelines there, mailed in their squares, and saw them appear in the album of finished squares.
Over three years the project grew to 375 stitchers in 47 states and 14 countries, 524 squares and five quilts: the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, Pennsylvania (Flight 93), the New York fire department and the New York police department. The site followed the quilts as they were sewn and then shown, from a Nashville mall in 2004 to needlework shows in Pennsylvania and California in 2005, and it stayed online until about 2011.
Pages from the original site
About these screenshots
We made these screenshots from the Internet Archive’s copies of the old pages and their images, at the 1024-pixel screen width common at the time. Click any of them to open the archived original in a new window.
Two images are blanked out. The old logo was built on a news photograph of firefighters raising the flag at Ground Zero, and one page carried a collage by a professional photographer. Both belong to their photographers, so we don’t reproduce them. Everything on the old pages, from the wording to the photos, is the work of the original organizer and the stitchers, and we show it to honor the project, not as our own. This site is independent and is not run by the original organizer. Every effort is being made to preserve the historic significance of this project, though we will respect credible requests to remove an image; contact us.
The project today
Everything the old site recorded is still here. Start with the 9-11 Memorial Quilt Project, browse the squares or the full list of stitchers, or follow the timeline.