Originally Posted by
WMUTeach
OK for all of you book readers out there, I just finished a book by Tracy Chevalier (The Girl With the Pearl Earing) that has a strong secondary theme about quilting and the difference in quilting styles in the mid 1800's. She mentions specifically hexagon quilts and English paper piecing. This is a rich, detailed novel about a young quaker immigrent from London who came to live in Ohio and in innocence got involved with runaway slaves in 1852. She is a quilter but uses her thread and needle in ways not expected of Quakers.
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I just finished reading this, I really enjoyed it. It was recommended to me by a friend who sews but doesn't quilt. She came over to see me and I showed her my gfg in progress which made her understand what the book was talking about when it was mentioned.