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SF Quilt Guild - Eli Leon
Eli Leon has been studying, exhibiting and writing about improvisational African-American quilts for the past 25 years. A 1989 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship allowed him to expand his research from his home base in Oakland, CA to east Texas, southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana - the geographical area from which most of his […]
Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History
Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History (Wormsloe Foundation Publication) was published in January as the end product of the Georgia Quilt Project, a multi-year survey that has documented some 10,000 quilts. The book contains 120 out of those 10,000 quilts, and the choices are enough to keep a quilt lover happy. But, there’s more…
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The Civil War Quilt Diary Book
The Civil War Love Letter Quilt: 121 Quilt Blocks Inspired by Love & War by Rosemary Youngs: The paper-pieced block patterns featured in this book are interchangeable with all of the 6″ blocks featured in The Amish Circle Quilt: 121 Quilt Block Patterns That Tell A Story and The Civil War Quilt Diary. Features Civil […]
Time to Pre-Order New Quilt Books
Amazon has a few new quilt books that are marked down as much as half price for pre-orders. Here’s an example for beginner quilters, with examples to come later this week:
Simple Contemporary Quilts: Bold New Designs for the First-Time Quilter by Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader: This book is a selection of the Crafter’s Choice Book […]
Quick Country Christmas Quilts
Quick Country Christmas Quilts: C’mon! You can quilt that quick! Or, give this book away as a present. Use Mumm’s quilt designs to capture seasonal festivities, using appliques and fast techniques to create impressive results! Materials and fabric lists and step-by-step instructions lend to an excellent seasonal gift idea book busy quilters will appreciate.
Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts
Rich, luminous fabrics, eleven miles of thread, an uncountable number of stitches, and clear, sparkling words. With these ingredients Anna Grossnickle Hines celebrates the lights that brighten the darkest season of our year in Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts. She captures each heartening glow and flicker, from the moon and aurora borealis […]
Santa Barbara Quilting Retreats
Santa Barbara, California, Quilting Retreats has their 2007 schedule up, with retreats in three different locations throughout beautiful Santa Barbara. The first retreat of the year to date is “Goddess of the Last Minute” with Robbi Joy Eklow, a retreat that echoes the title of the column she writes for Quilting Arts Magazine. This retreat […]
Quilt Myths
Did your fifth great-grandmother create a quilt? While you might like to think that she did, history shows that she probably didn’t. The Website, America’s Quilting History explains why, based in part upon the book Quiltmaking in America: Beyond the Myths (Hobbies - Needlework & Quilting):
By about 1840 the textile industry had grown to the […]
The Architecture of the Quilt
Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt - What a great gift, for yourself or for a dear quilting friend! In 2002, Gee’s Bend burst into international prominence through the success of Tinwood’s Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition and book, which revealed an important and previously invisible art tradition from the African American South. Critics […]
