Dates: Nov. 9 - Jan. 4,

The word uhuru is Swahili for "freedom". Uhuru's first meeting was held the third Saturday in March 1994 at the Oxon Hill Library in Oxon Hill, MD. A brief notice in the Quilters Newsletter Magazine prompted Carol Williams to write to Barbara Pietila, founder of the National Association of African American Quilters (now defunct) in Baltimore, MD. Carol sent handwritten invitations to other NAAAQ members to form a NAAQ chapter in the Washington, DC area. Uhuru was the result of that invitation.