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The Quilter's Apprentice (Elm Creek Quilts, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.97 — 18,146 ratings — published 1999
The Quilter's Legacy (Elm Creek Quilts, #5)
by (shelved 13 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,667 ratings — published 2003
The Runaway Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #4)
by (shelved 12 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,767 ratings — published 2002
The Master Quilter (Elm Creek Quilts, #6)
by (shelved 12 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,453 ratings — published 2004
The Christmas Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #8)
by (shelved 12 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.90 — 6,387 ratings — published 2005
The Lost Quilter (Elm Creek Quilts, #14)
by (shelved 11 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,751 ratings — published 2009
Round Robin (Elm Creek Quilts, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,367 ratings — published 2000
The Sugar Camp Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #7)
by (shelved 11 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,934 ratings — published 2005
Circle of Quilters (Elm Creek Quilts, #9)
by (shelved 11 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,175 ratings — published 2006
The Union Quilters (Elm Creek Quilts, #17)
by (shelved 10 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,428 ratings — published 2011
The Aloha Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #16)
by (shelved 9 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,821 ratings — published 2010
The Cross-Country Quilters (Elm Creek Quilts, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,353 ratings — published 2001
The Quilter's Homecoming (Elm Creek Quilts, #10)
by (shelved 9 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,736 ratings — published 2007
Show Way (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,500 ratings — published 2005
The Giving Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #20)
by (shelved 8 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,540 ratings — published 2012
A Quilter's Holiday (Elm Creek Quilts, #15)
by (shelved 8 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,706 ratings — published 2009
The Wedding Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts #18)
by (shelved 8 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,846 ratings — published 2011
The Patchwork Quilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,731 ratings — published 1985
The Quiltmaker's Gift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,820 ratings — published 1999
Denyse Schmidt Quilts: 30 Colorful Quilt and Patchwork Projects (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.11 — 461 ratings — published 2005
The Winding Ways Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #12)
by (shelved 8 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,679 ratings — published 2008
The New Year's Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #11)
by (shelved 8 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,602 ratings — published 2007
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,932 ratings — published 1993
Material Obsession: Modern Quilts with Traditional Roots (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.06 — 276 ratings — published 2008
The World's Fair Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts #23)
by (shelved 6 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,848 ratings — published
The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)
by (shelved 6 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,238 ratings — published
Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!! : The Complete Guide to Quiltmaking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.00 — 233 ratings — published 1988
The Christmas Boutique (Elm Creek Quilts #21)
by (shelved 6 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,935 ratings — published 2019
The Quilter's Kitchen (Elm Creek Quilts, #13)
by (shelved 6 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.52 — 3,605 ratings — published 2008
The Practical Guide to Patchwork: New Basics for the Modern Quiltmaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.20 — 660 ratings — published 2010
The Keeping Quilt (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,241 ratings — published 1988
The Quilts of Gee's Bend: Masterpieces from a Lost Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.59 — 362 ratings — published 2002
Glorious Patchwork (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.34 — 169 ratings — published 1997
Why We Quilt: Contemporary Makers Speak Out about the Power of Art, Activism, Community, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.23 — 162 ratings — published
Sonoma Rose (Elm Creek Quilts, #19)
by (shelved 5 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,415 ratings — published 2012
Mooshka: A Quilt Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.98 — 281 ratings — published 2012
A Single Thread (Cobbled Court Quilts, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,234 ratings — published 2008
Modern Log Cabin Quilting: 25 Simple Quilts and Patchwork Projects (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.00 — 172 ratings — published 2011
The Persian Pickle Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.77 — 24,023 ratings — published 1995
500 Art Quilts: An Inspiring Collection of Contemporary Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.29 — 114 ratings — published 2010
The Katha Chest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.18 — 330 ratings — published 2021
Strip-Smart Quilts: 16 Designs from One Easy Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.08 — 37 ratings — published 2011
Schnibbles Times Two: Quilts from 5" or 10" Squares (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.25 — 71 ratings — published 2010
Tar Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,207 ratings — published 1991
Sunday Morning Quilts: 16 Modern Scrap Projects - Sort, Store, and Use Every Last Bit of Your Treasured Fabrics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.24 — 605 ratings — published 2012
Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts About Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.14 — 300 ratings — published 2011
Pieces: A Year in Poems & Quilts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.08 — 84 ratings — published 2001
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quilts)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,156 ratings — published 1999
A Baker's Dozen: 13 Quilts from Jelly Rolls, Layer Cakes, and More From the Staff at That Patchwork Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.04 — 27 ratings — published 2010
Dare to Be Square Quilting: A Block-by-Block Guide to Making Patchwork and Quilts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quilts)
avg rating 4.09 — 142 ratings — published 2010
“I've had a heap o' comfort all my life makin' quilts, and now in my old age I wouldn't take a fortune for 'em. Set down here, child, where you can see out o' the winder and smell the lilacs, and we'll look at 'em all. You see, some folks has albums to put folks' pic tures in to remember :em by, and some folks has a book and writes down the things that happen every day so they won't forgit 'em; but, honey, these quilts is my albums and my di'ries, and whenever the weather's bad and I can't git out to see folks, I jest spread out my quilts and look at 'em and study over 'em, and it's jest like goin' back fifty or sixty years and livin' my life over agin.
"There ain't nothin' like a piece o' caliker for bringin' back old times, child, unless it's a flower or a bunch o'thyme or a piece o' pennyroy'l — anything that smells sweet. Why, I can go out yonder in the yard and gether a bunch o' that purple lilac and jest shut my eyes and see faces I ain't seen for fifty years, and somethin' goes through me like a flash o' lightnin', and it seems like I'm young agin jest for that minute.”
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"There ain't nothin' like a piece o' caliker for bringin' back old times, child, unless it's a flower or a bunch o'thyme or a piece o' pennyroy'l — anything that smells sweet. Why, I can go out yonder in the yard and gether a bunch o' that purple lilac and jest shut my eyes and see faces I ain't seen for fifty years, and somethin' goes through me like a flash o' lightnin', and it seems like I'm young agin jest for that minute.”
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“Aunt Jane came around from the back of the house, her black silk cape fluttering from her shoulders, and a calico sunbonnet hiding her features in its cavernous depth. She walked briskly to the clothes-line and began patting and smoothing the quilts where the breeze had disarranged them.
"Aunt Jane," I called out, "are you having a fair all by yourself?"
She turned quickly, pushing back the sunbonnet from her eyes.
"Why, child," she said, with a happy laugh, "you come pretty nigh skeerin' me. No, I ain't havin' any fair; I'm jest givin' my quilts their spring airin'. Twice a year I put 'em out in the sun and wind; and this mornin' the air smelt so sweet, I thought it was a good chance to freshen 'em up for the summer. It's about time to take 'em in now."
She began to fold the quilts and lay them over her arm, and I did the same. Back and forth we went from the clothes-line to the house, and from the house to the clothes-line, until the quilts were safely housed from the coming dewfall and piled on every available chair in the front room. I looked at them in sheer amazement. There seemed to be every pattern that the ingenuity of woman could devise and the industry of woman put together, — "four-patches," "nine-patches," "log-cabins," "wild-goose chases," "rising suns," hexagons, diamonds, and only Aunt Jane knows what else. As for color, a Sandwich Islander would have danced with joy at the sight of those reds, purples, yellows, and greens.
"Did you really make all these quilts, Aunt Jane?" I asked wondcringly.
Aunt Jane's eyes sparkled with pride.
"Every stitch of 'em, child," she said, "except the quiltin'. The neighbors used to come in and help some with that. I've heard folks say that piecin' quilts was nothin' but a waste o' time, but that ain't always so.”
― Aunt Jane of Kentucky
"Aunt Jane," I called out, "are you having a fair all by yourself?"
She turned quickly, pushing back the sunbonnet from her eyes.
"Why, child," she said, with a happy laugh, "you come pretty nigh skeerin' me. No, I ain't havin' any fair; I'm jest givin' my quilts their spring airin'. Twice a year I put 'em out in the sun and wind; and this mornin' the air smelt so sweet, I thought it was a good chance to freshen 'em up for the summer. It's about time to take 'em in now."
She began to fold the quilts and lay them over her arm, and I did the same. Back and forth we went from the clothes-line to the house, and from the house to the clothes-line, until the quilts were safely housed from the coming dewfall and piled on every available chair in the front room. I looked at them in sheer amazement. There seemed to be every pattern that the ingenuity of woman could devise and the industry of woman put together, — "four-patches," "nine-patches," "log-cabins," "wild-goose chases," "rising suns," hexagons, diamonds, and only Aunt Jane knows what else. As for color, a Sandwich Islander would have danced with joy at the sight of those reds, purples, yellows, and greens.
"Did you really make all these quilts, Aunt Jane?" I asked wondcringly.
Aunt Jane's eyes sparkled with pride.
"Every stitch of 'em, child," she said, "except the quiltin'. The neighbors used to come in and help some with that. I've heard folks say that piecin' quilts was nothin' but a waste o' time, but that ain't always so.”
― Aunt Jane of Kentucky
