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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1: Meet the Goddess
    • My Autobiography in 3,000 Words or Less
    • Take My Advice
    • Goddess of the Last Minute
    • Why I Love My Studio
    • All My Life in Drawers
    • The Right Place to Write
    • Make It Work
    • The Printer that is Entirely Too Large
    • Tattoos
  • CHAPTER 2: Home Is Where the Quilts Are
    • Note to Self: Not All Quilts Hang on Walls
    • Sharpies Forever
    • The Editor
    • Ann Landers
    • Vases All Over the Place
    • Does a Quilter Need a Spinning Wheel?
    • The Kids Shall Inherit the Quilts
    • And Everything Else
    • Too Many Books?
    • Say It with Fabric
  • CHAPTER 3: The Quilting Life
    • The Color of Things
    • I Love Lime
    • Do Irons Need a Vacation?
    • The Machine's the Thing
    • You'll Have to Pry These Scissors From My cold, Dead Hands
    • Working on Workmanship
    • Clutter Control
    • Sizing Up a Quilt
    • A Quilter's Wardrobe
    • Addiction to Submission
    • Quilt-Show Rejection
  • CHAPTER 4: How Many Quilts Will Fit in This Carry-On?
    • I Make the Lists
    • Rant
    • I Love Those Tote Bags
    • The Waffle Incident
    • Going to See Mount Rushmore
    • Don't Call Me
    • Teacher Reviews
    • Fear of Speaking
  • CHAPTER 5: The Universal Language
    • Talking to Strangers
    • Conversation at the Post Office
    • A Fibery Day at the Dentist
    • A Quilter Walks into a Hardware Store
    • When I Grow Up
    • An Old Friend with a Good Eye
    • The Dangerous Quilter
    • Walter's Mother: An Old-Fashioned Quilter
    • Quilting Friends
  • About the Author

Title: Goddess of the Last Minute: Laughter and Lessons from an Uncommon Quilter
Author/Designer: Robbi Joy Eklow
Format/Publication Date: HC:2009
Publisher: MBI Publishing Co., Minneapolis, MN
Language: English
Page Count: 224
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 7 1/2" x 5 1/4"
ISBN: 9780760334294

SUMMARY- This is in the same vein as Lois Boncer and Helen Kelley - and um, you may not know the reference. So, think Ann Landers if she was a quilter(which the author compared herself to, and I do consider it apt). She's funny and self-deprecating and has a long-running column in "Quilting Arts Magazine" with the same title as the book. I don't have any of the magazine, so I don't know if these were originally published and are reprints or not. The inner flap of the jacket suggests not. I enjoyed it. I think you would too.

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