Originally Posted by quiltingcandy

It really depends on the type of quilts you like to make. Do you like to quilt by hand or machine? When I look for books it depends on what I want to do at the time. When I first started (in 1975) I bought the Better Homes & Gardens Encyclopedia of Sewing. It worked for years as it had a little bit of everything and then I branched out as I found quilts I wanted to make. For paper piecing I took a beginners class because the books looked like a foreign language to me. But for English paper piecing (EPP) i just watched the videos on YouTube. I still want to make a cathedral window and bought a book with the patterns and then have watched a few videos - still kind of afraid to start until I finish a few of my UFO's.