Book to help a beginner
 

If you were to give a beginning quilter one book to help her learn some of the tips and techniques involved in making a quilt, what book would you recommend?

"Quilting, The Complete Guide" by Darlene Zimmerman is a great book. It tells you about everything and how to do it. It's also a great reference guide.

Quilts, Quilts, Quilts because that was my first!

I like the dummy books.....Quilting for Dummies. Very basic and a good teacher

Egg Money Quilts by eleanor burns... various patterns and techniques and excellent instructions and pictures

Better Homes and Gardens Complete Guide to Quilting. I still look up things in this book.

This is my favorite all purpose book too. Great photographs. Also there are plenty of free videos on line.

Quilter's Academy Freshman Year: A Skill-Building Course in Quiltmaking
by Harriet Hargrave & Carrie Hargrave http://www.amazon.com/Quilters-Acade...ilters+academy

I think I would want to know the style of quilts this person was attracted to, and get a beginners book featuring that style. I like contemporary quilts, so bought a book with some simple patterns that I really liked. Since then, I've gotten books that are more technical, but the book I ended up with was very basic and just what I needed to get going.

Any "Quilt in a Day" book. Eleanor Burns is so good at teaching beginning quilters.