Butterflyblue

I saw a book of easy cross stitch patterns in Goodwill today. I thought of trying pixel quilts, but I really don’t need another book, especially just I just got two new books in the mail yesterday!

copycat

Sometimes I keep a quilting book because of the beauty of the outside cover/spine when it's placed on my bookshelf!
I have a few of those with good content too, but some are too lovely to give away and adds to my decor....))

mmunchkins

What books did you get in the mail?

Butterflyblue

The first “The Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt” book and “Alice’s Wonderland Sampler Quilt” by Alice Caroline. Both are 6” block samplers, with surprisingly few overlaps in the blocks. The Alice’s Wonderland book has such a pretty quilt, made with Liberty fabrics which I won’t be buying but I’m going to definitely try to use some Liberty-esque fabrics for a sampler. The Farmers Wife I got mostly to read, but I’ve decided to go ahead and make a lap size Fathers Wife sampler in blue and white with my blue scraps.

KalamaQuilts

does your Alice book include the corrections?
https://alicecaroline.com/product/am...MsYHjks-NWh8u0

Butterflyblue

I don’t know. I do remember reading in an Amazon review that the recent editions were corrected, but I’ll have to check and see if mine has the updates or not. Thanks for the reminder!

Lena1952

It has to be a book. That’s my criteria for adding it to my shelf. I’ve made many a quilt from most of my books. I even have some that date prior to rotary cutting and still find them useful.

Butterflyblue

One of my favorites is Lap Quilting, by Georgia Bonesteel. I don’t use the templates for the blocks that are easily rotary cut, but I’ve used the curved templates and I find several of the quilts timeless and inspiring. The rest of the quilts are pretty dated, but if you look past the ruffles and fabric choices they’re still good quilts. Plus it is was one of my first quilting books (maybe even the first quilting book I owned) given to me by a quilting friend.

tropit

I like that! I do that too with other books. I have a collection of coffee table books that have tons of pictures and not a lot of text. I still like looking at them and they look fabulous on the bespoke bookshelf that the DH built for me.

tropit

I don't buy whole quilting books anymore. Most great patterns are available for download online now. I probably should get rid of a few that I have, but I still want to make a few of the patterns that are in them.