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The bright new world of quilting

Plump, Wendy

2008

Overview

\"It's not your grandmother's quilting world,\" [Meg Cox] says. \"It's a totally different animal. People today come at quilting with a completely different intention. They don't come at it to make bedcovers, they come at it to make art. And with the tools and technology out there, they can start with almost no training and make a quilt that can knock your socks off.\" Cox ought to know what's available out there. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the author of two previous books on domestic arts, Cox brought her considerable reporting skills to the research for her newest book. She interviewed 20 famous quilting masters. She visited all the Web sites listed and talked with all of their authors, \"so I knew they wouldn't be gone tomorrow.\" She chased down fabrics, wrestled with software and enrolled in classes in an effort to take the full measure of quilting today. \"Most of the quilting books were `How To' books or project books. There was nothing that covered the whole gamut,\" says Cox, whose mother taught her to quilt. \"One of the reasons for doing this book is that it explains a lot of things that experienced quilters know that could take you a while to figure out. And then my goal in writing the first chapter was to write it so that you couldn't not go out and take a quilting class.\"

• Publisher: Newhouse News Service