Quilty as Charged: Undercover in a Material World

Quilty as Charged: Undercover in a Material World
by Spike Gillespie

Quilty as Charged: Undercover in a Material World
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Author: Spike Gillespie
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-01
ISBN: 0292705999
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Book Review: The secret world of competitive quilts
Summary: 4 Stars

Quilty as Charged by Spike Gillespie is an intriguing look into the world of competitive quilt making. Quilt makers have come far from the grandmotherly types society expects. From art quilts with messages about poverty in the world, to Victorian crazy quilts, Gillespie interviews and views a wide variety of quilts and their makers, even some men! Gillespie has a wonderful voice for story-telling, but sometimes in allowing her interview subjects to speak without editing them, the stories ramble. Some pictures of the quilts are in black and white and others are in color, however, rather than use different pictures for each section, sometimes pictures are repeated. I would have enjoyed seeing far more quilts in this book, but I definitely enjoyed reading about their creation.

Summary of Quilty as Charged: Undercover in a Material World

In the United States today, there are more than twenty-two million quilters who collectively spend more than one billion dollars on quilting every year. The annual International Quilt Festival attracts more than 50,000 dedicated visitors from around the world. Festival prize money can reach $100,000. Drawn into this material world by a newspaper assignment, Spike Gillespie soon found the personalities who populate serious quiltmaking as compelling as the art itself. Quilty as Charged is not a history or how-to guide; it is a collection of many small stories, including Gillespie's, stitched together in the spirit of quilting, separate scraps made into a cohesive cloth.

Quilting today is a world of traditionalists and visionary artists, collectors and connoisseurs, and it encourages the same intrigue, innovation, and inspiration found in "fine" art. (Many of the quilts themselves hang, deservedly, in fine art museums.) Inevitably, Gillespie begins piecing together a quilt. But while her effort begins as a helpful tool for understanding her subjects, what she ultimately understands is that she, like all inspired quilters, is sewing her own pattern.

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