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The Standard Book of Quilt Making and Collecting (original 1949; edition 1959)

by Marguerite Ickis

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Best available book on quiltmaking with full information, full-size patterns for making 46 traditional quilts, 150 other basic patterns for making your own designs, and over 480 helpful illustrations.
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Title:The Standard Book of Quilt Making and Collecting
Authors:Marguerite Ickis
Info:Dover Publications (1959), Edition: Early edition, Paperback, 273 pages
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"How much piecin' a quilt is like livin' a life! Many a time I've set and listened to Parson Page preachin' about predestination and free wil;, and I've said to myself, 'If I could jest git up there in the pulpit with one of my quilts, I could make life a heap plainer that parson's makin' it with his big words.
"You see, to make a quilt you start out with jest so much caliker; you don't go to the store and pick it out and buy it but the neighbors give you a piece here and there and you'll find you have a piece left over every time you cut out a dress, and you jest take whatever happens to come. That's the predestination.
"But when it comes to cuttin' out the quilt, why, you're free to choose your own pattern. You give the same kind of pieces to two persons and one'll make a 'Nine-Patch' and the other one'll make a 'Wild-goose-chase' and so there'll be two quilts made of the same kind of pieces but jest as different as can be. That's the way of livin'. The Lord sends us the pieces; we can cut 'em out and put 'em together pretty much to suit ourselves. There's a heap more in the cuttin' out and sewin' than there is in the caliker."
From AUNT JANE OF KENTUCKY
by Eliza Calvert Hall
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Almost every woman at one time or another has had the urge to quilt -- many have proud results in their bedrooms for all to see and admire.
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That kindly, ancient lady reminisced as she passed her work-worn fingers over a quilt she had pieced together while her family was growing up:
"It took me more that twenty years, nearly twenty-five, I reckon," she told me softly, "in the evenings after supper when the children were all put to bed. My whole life is in that quilt. It scares me sometimes when I look at it. All my joys and all my sorrows are stitched into those little pieces. When I was proud of the boys and when I was downright provoked and angry with them. When the girls annoyed me or when they gave me a warm feeling around my heart. And John too. He was stitched into that quilt and all the thirty years we were married. Sometimes I loved him and sometimes I sat there hating him as I pieced the patches together. So they are all in that quilt, my hopes and fears, my joys and sorrows, my loves and hates I tremble sometimes when I remember what that quilt knows about me.
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