The Quilter's Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource Guide

The Quilter's Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource Guide
by Meg Cox

The Quilter's Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource Guide
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Author: Meg Cox
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2008-02-07
ISBN: 0761138811
Number of pages: 600
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

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Book Review: Excellent Resource
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a great book. It has a wealth of information on many topics. It is truly comprehensive in it's scope. The only disappointing thing about the book that it lacked color photographs. True there were 8 pages that were in color but I felt this product would have been superb if it had been in color. Don't get me wrong I love the book and have learned and continue to learn from the plethora of information here but I miss the color.

Summary of The Quilter's Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource Guide

It’s not your grandmother’s quilt world anymore. Quilting today is a phenomenally popular hobby, artform, and business, often rolled into one, that attracts 21 million avid quilters who spend $2.27 billion annually on their passion. There are 2,500 quilt shops around the country, popular television series, guilds, Web sites, and national fairs—one in Houston draws 50,000 visitors each year.

Meg Cox, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, is one of the obsessive new quilters, and in The Quilter's Catalog, she draws on all her skills as a journalist to write the essential resource for contemporary quilters. Here’s the low-down on tools: computer-driven sewing machines, innovative rotary cutters, longarms. New and old techniques, from how to dye your own fabric to cutting-edge digital photo-transfer. Profiles of the twenty top quilting teachers— television’s Alex Anderson, Esterita Austin and her award-winning landscape quilts, Ruth McDowell, known for her bravura technique. Who makes the best fabrics and how to find them. A complete resource guide to the best Web sites, online groups, books, patterns, stores, shows, challenges. And a look at the new world of quiltaholics: its sense of community, its opportunities for business, its controversies (hand-sewn vs. machine-sewn), its attractions—quilting is easy, portable, friendly, therapeutic, often profitable, and the perfect way to mark a milestone.

The book includes 12 step-by-step projects from key teachers—a crib quilt, bed quilts, quilted ornaments—and instructions on how to hang, store, or ship a quilt.

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