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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1: THE FIRST STITCH
    • How to Make an American Quilt
            by Whitney Otto
    • How NOT to Make a Prize-Winning Quilt
            by Ami Simms
    • The Quilter's Apprentice
            by Jennifer Chiaverini
  • CHAPTER 2: OUR QUILTING HERITAGE
    • Quilts Among the Plain People
            by Rachel T Pellman, Joanne Ranck
    • Hidden in Plain View
            by Jacqueline L Tobin, Raymond G Dobard, Ph.D.
    • Quilts and the Hopi Baby-Naming Ceremony
            by Marlene Sekaquaptewa, Carolyn O'Bagy Davis
  • CHAPTER 3: COMFORT AND JOY
    • The Bedquilt
            by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
    • Quilting on the Rebound
            by Terry McMillan
  • CHAPTER 4: A COMMUNITY OF QUILTERS
    • The Persian Pickle Club
            by Sandra Dallas
    • A Quilting Bee in Our Village
            by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
  • CHAPTER 5: A PATCHWORK OF MEANING AND MEMORY
    • Everyday Use
            by Alice Walker
    • Anut Jane's Album
            by Aliza Calvert Hall
    • The Quilters
            by Patricia J Cooper, Norma Bradley Allen

Title: This Old Quilt: A Heartwarming Celebration of Quilts and Quilting Memories
Editor: Margret Aldich, Contributors include: Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Whitney Otto, Patricia J Cooper, Norma Bradley Allen
Format/Publication Date: HC:2001
Publisher: Voyageur Press, Stillwater, MN
Language: English
Page Count: 160
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0896585514

SUMMARY- This is a lovely book of essays and excerpted stories from a great many contributors(more than made it onto the cover). All of the contributors are in the Table of Contents. This isn't a book of patterns, but a book of essays about quilting and quilters.