Helen Kelley

I am not a quilter. My aunt was, and I have 2 quilts from her. I did once undertake to fix another of her quilts that belongs to my mother, but that is the extent of my quilting experience.

I saw this book on the book exchange shelf at a local library and decided to pick it up. It's a series of short pieces that all relate to quilting in some way. It was interesting but I do have to think that someone who quilts might get more out of some of the stories than I did.

Another one of three collections of Helen Kelley's columns for the now-defunct Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. A blurb on the back of this edition describes Kelley as the Erma Bombeck of the quilting world and that is an apt description. Fun to read a column or two while I'm quilting.

Helen Kelley was a long-time monthly columnist for the now-defunct Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. I always enjoyed her columns about quilting and her gentle good humor. This volume is a partial collection of her columns (there are at least two other collections), and it was nice to pick up and read one or two each evening.

Delightful personal anecdotes of a self-confessed quilt addict. Selected from her newspaper columns.