Books of Crafts & Hobbies / Quilts & Quilting
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Nancy Crow
By Nancy CrowWorld-renowned quilter Nancy Crow's work is presented for a general audience for the first time in this volume. Divided into nine major quilt series, the book shows not only the...
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Soft Covers for Hard Times: Quiltmaking & the Great Depression
By Merikay WaldvogelDuring the Great Depression, a time of widespread poverty, women managed to produce some of America's most beautiful quilts. Soft Covers for Hard Times explores matters rural and city quiltmakers...
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Judy Martin's Ultimate Book of Quilt Block Patterns
By Judy MartinJudy Martin's Ultimate Book of Quilt Block Patterns
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Quilts of Virginia, 1607-1899: The Birth of America Through the Eye of a Needle
This new book anticipates Virginia's 400th anniversary in 2007 by presenting over 270 beautiful historic quilts and ephemera in over 430 color and vintage photographs. From quilted armor of the...
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Quilts of the Oregon Trail
By Mary Bywater CrossBetween 1840 and 1870, thousands of women arrived in the Pacific Northwest by way of the Oregon Trail. This migration or "leave taking" was a life-changing experience, consuming the longest...
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Dating Fabrics 2: A Color Guide 1950-2000
By Eileen Jahnke TrestainFrom poodle skirts of the 1950s to baby doll dresses of the 1990s, the fabrics of our everyday lives are featured in this handy reference guide to the materials of...
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Amish Quilts of Lancaster County
By Patricia T. HerrEnjoy the bold design and glowing colors of Amish quilts, specifically the 82 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Amish quilts formerly known as the Esprit collection. These quilts have been exhibited worldwide...
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Minnesota Quilts: Creating Connections with Our Past
Interest in quilting and in the history of quilting has never been stronger. Minnesota Quilts showcases 150 quilts of the approximately 4,000 documented by the Minnesota Quilt Project during the...
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Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond
By Austin Museum of Art, Joanne Cubbs, Matt ArnettMary Lee Bendolph’s extraordinary patchworks garnered national attention when they were featured among the works of other quiltmakers from her tiny, predominately African American community in the 2002 blockbuster exhibition...
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Quilt National: Contemporary Designs in Fabric
By Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts CenterEvery year the Quilt National Exhibition in America provides a forum for contemporary quiltmakers. All of the 82 quilts from the 1995 exhibition of quilts are shown here, illustrated in...
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America's Pictorial Quilts
By Caron L. MoseyPictorial quilts reflect an artistic nature--a need to express an inner emotion or feeling, to share that feeling through fiber in perpetuity. As you proress through America's Pictorial Quilts, you...
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Designing Tessellations: The Secrets of Interlocking Patterns
By Jinny BeyerDesigning Tessellations opens the door for quilters to thousands of new and exciting patterns by showing them how to create tessellations--designs made up of the repeated use of seemingly complex...
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New Discoveries in American Quilts
By Robert Charles Bishop, Patricia Coblentz, Robert BishopNew Discoveries in American Quilts
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American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940: The International Quilt Study Center Collections
By Patricia Cox Crews, Marin F. HansonPulitzer Prize–winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, “Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely because women were expected to use needles rather...
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Going West!: Quilts and Community
By Sandi FoxOften called the great corridor of America's westward expansion, in the nineteenth century the Great Platte River Road carried wagon trains and settlers through Nebraska Territory to points farther west....
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Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations
By Mary Bywater CrossBetween 1830 and 1877, Mormon men and women migrated to Utah to establish homes and find a place to nurture their faith. During this period, many women stitched heirloom-quilts as...
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The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857: Stories of the Relief Society Women and Their Quilt
By Carol Holindrake NielsonQuilts are a lot like people. They are not overnight undertakings. They seldom turn out the way they were intended. Colors change when you run short of fabric. Edges misalign...
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Quilting, Patchwork & Appliqué: A World Guide
By Christine Shaw, Caroline CrabtreeNative American Seminole clothing, Dutch quilted petticoats, Swedish wedding cushions, African-American narrative quilts, Italian appliquéd furnishings, Eastern European braided waistcoats, nineteenth-century American block patterns, traditional English quilts, Korean pojagi, Turkish...
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Quilting, 1915-1983: An Annotated Bibliography
By Colleen Lahan MakowskiQuilting, 1915-1983: An Annotated Bibliography
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Grand Endeavors: Vintage Arizona Quilts and Their Makers
By Pam Knight Stevenson, Helen Young FrostGrand Endeavors: Vintage Arizona Quilts and Their Makers