I'm just wondering what everyone's favorite quilting book is. The one you got the most use out of, or learned so much from.

Inquiring minds want to know!

Fons and Porter "Complete Guide to Quilting". My very first book ever purchased many years ago and still a great go to.

The is the one that came to my mind.

The truth is I really do not have a favorite -- I just love all books.

501 quilt blocks is my favorite book. :)

I am making the backing using pieced letters and I learned how to make all the letters in that book. How can you go wrong with a book that shows you how to make 501 quilt blocks!

I love that one, too, and I also love Eleanor Burn's log cabin "Quilt in a Day" books for fast projects. Any books out there that you made several projects out of?

Ruth McDowell, Piecing Workshop. I learned how to piece pretty much anything from that. It's not the quickest method on the planet, but then you're not using it for traditional geometric block quilts, you're using it for art quilts and the like (made a couple of gorgeous baby quilts, for instance).

I'm doing her Day and Night quilt right now. Actually one of my friends just taught this to our quilting group and all the ladies went home with two completed blocks at the end of the Saturday workshop.

I haven't made several quilts of any of her books, but like her simplicity.

I can only pick one? "Big Book of Scrap Quilts", Oxmoor House. I'm happy if there is one quilt in a book that I really want to make. I have about 6 from this one that are on my list.

The book "It's OK to sit on my quilt", by Mary Ellen Hopkins.

"It's OK to Sit on My Quilt" by Mary Ellen Hopkins

My favorite is always the next one.

Seriously, I have purchased a lot of quilting books, and the ones that were the most help when I started are not the ones I look at now. I think we all go through different phases in our quilting, and there are many books that are helpful along the way. I purchased only one Eleanor Burns book, and I was not happy with it at all. Too much about her personal life; maybe not all her books are like that, but it turned me off. I really like Judy Martin's Log Cabin book (and her other books).

Quilt Savvy by Diane Gaudynski.

Karen K. Stone Quilts. Her use of color and instructions it feels like she is right there talking to you.

Anything specifically about quilting history to 'shake things up' a bit?

501 Quilt Blocks is my hands-down favorite too. There's not much in the way of techniques, but there are LOTS of cool blocks. When I need information on techniques, either to try a new one or improve my skills, I borrow something from the library or I go online for tutorials.

I learned a lot about color and gained some confidence putting fabrics together from Color From the Heart by Gai Perry.

I keep going back to my Better Homes and Garden, Big Book of Quilting!! Love it to pieces, comes in a three ring binder, so you can add clippings, patterns or notes.

I've used this one so much it fell apart!

My two cents will lean towards crazy quilting, anything by Judith Baker Montano, I have all her books, DVD, Marsha Michler, and Carole Samples are others...I have every book on line that I can find about Crazy Quilting...they all offer something different and I love learning from them all...BJ

I have to admit to being a collector of books and don't necessarily have a favorite. I just love having them to leaf through on a quiet night when hubby is in bed already!

I love all of the Kaffee Fasset books. Such wonderful eye-candy that just soothes the quilter's soul!

To shake it up a bit - New Cuts for New Quilts - More Ways to Stack the Deck by Karla Alexander. Whole lot of shaking going on there!

Me too!!

Yes, indeed, the "Quilter's Bible."

I like "Its Ok if you Sit on my Quilt"......... Im not at home so cant tell you the author, but its a wonderful book with tons if information and ideas

I agree, that is my favorite. Use it all the time.

I have several out of my Thimbleberries books by Lynette Jensen and lots of ones our of Debbie Mumm books.

Don't you just love her? Have you seen her on "Simply Quilts"? She is a stitch. I have her books too.

Question: is the Complete Guide to Quilting the same as Quilter's Complete Guide?

That is also my favorite. I have used it for years. Everytime I look through it I see something different.

I love the "encyclopedia of basic quilts"

This is one I use frequently. Then I have a "quilt book that isn't very good but it was my Mom's and I would not ever get rid of this one. It is sorta like my Mom's cookbook.

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Better Home and Gardens Complete Guide to Quilting, is the book I started with and still go to. I'm self taught it really helps.

I have several books, but don't know if any would be my favorite. I do get books from the local library & love so many of them. I get alot of ideas from them & the best thin is, I don't have to pay a cent for them.

Mine too. It's my "Go To" book.

Any of Eleanot Burns Books from Quilt in a Day! I just told someone this! Her books are easy for everyone!

Any of Eleanor Burns Books from Quilt in a Day! I just told someone this! Her books are easy for everyone!

Yes this was one of my first books and used the most.

This week-Quilters Recipe Book by Celia Eddy -- last week Best of the Best Quilts by Leslie Beck and I haven"t decided about next week :-P The library is the best place to spend the day the copy machine is right there and at 10cents a page I save a fortune :thumbup: