Illinois Amish Quilts: Sharing Threads of Tradition

LLINOIS AMISH QUILTS: SHARING THREADS OF TRADITION is more than a collection of photographs of awe-inspiring Amish quilts. Quilt historians, museum curators, collectors, and appraisers will welcome this in-depth documentation of Illinois Amish quilt styles, patterns, and designs. In this book, we meet the quiltmakers and learn about their family histories. We learn that, like their non-Amish neighbors, they culled pieced patterns from magazines, mail-order catalogs, and newspapers; and they cut quilting stencils from cardboard. Working with their traditional solid-color fabrics, they produced a body of exciting and intriguing quilts that are an inspiration to quiltmakers today. Quiltmakers will also appreciate the easy-to-duplicate quilting designs included in the appendix. - Merikay Waldvogel, quilt historian and author of Soft Covers for Hard Times: Quiltmaking and the Great Depression.