1. I don't have a single reference book that would help a new quilter through her entire journey. I have had to use many books, getting a bit from each one. I wish I could point to just one and say that one will give you all the answers, but I can't. And a book that really speaks to me may not speak in the same way to someone else.
2. No one book is that important to me. The entire collection of books is of great value.
Even if I could choose a book for each question, they would probably be different. The books that are most important to me now are not the books that were most helpful to me 10 years ago, when I started quilting.