Essential Quilts Books
 

Which are your favorites?
I like 501 Rotary Cut Blocks.
Which do you a lot?
Santa neds a few hints!

I really like the "Big Book of Scrap Quilts". You can get a used one quite inexpensively. Not for beginners, however, as the instructions for each quilt are not extensive.
http://www.amazon.com/Scrap-Quilts-A...f+scrap+quilts

Quilts, Quilts, Quilts! By McClun & Nownes. Great learning tool & I like that it gives yardage & measurements for each pattern for lap, twin, double/queen & king sizes. We used this book for my beginning class & I refer back to it a lot.

The two books I learned the most from were technique books by Harriet Hargrave -- the one on machine quilting (on a domestic machine), and the one on invisible machine applique.

I also learned a lot from Debra Wagner's books -- I think she published only two or three, but they are excellent. That's where I learned how to divide batting up to make quilting large quilts on a domestic machine easier.

One of the best books I have is "Mastering Precision Piecing" by Nancy Collins. Great book, especially if like me, you like working with small pieces. I was a self-taught quilter and she un-taught of lot of bad habits I taught myself!!

Other than that, most of the books I concentrate on are about techniques, not patterns.

I like the Quilter's Academy series by Harriet Hargrave

The greenish [?teal] Quilter's Pocket Reference by Peggy Scholley.

Any of Bonnie Hunters, my prized possession is a book she singed for me even including my name.

I really like Anita Grossman Solomon's Rotary Cutting Revolution.