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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Threads of Wisdom
    • Kelley's Laws for Quilters
    • My Mama Done Tol' Me
    • Lesson Learned from a Munchkin
    • Golden Guilt
    • That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
    • Recycle
    • Feathering My Nest
    • Abracadabra
    • Slow and Steady Wins the Race
    • Gaining a New Dimension
    • Eating Humble Pie
    • Life Is a Sandwich
  • Chapter 2: Keeping Us in Stitches
    • A Matter of Policy
    • Oh, Say Can You See?
    • "All My Problems" (A Soap Opera)
    • Curses, Foiled Again
    • Consider the Lilies
    • Bow Wow
    • Seams Like Old Times
    • The Night That Time Stood Still
    • One Potato, Two Potato
    • A Monumental Mess
    • Vocabulary Lesson
  • Chapter 3: The Quilt Connection
    • De-lightful! De-lovely!
    • The Fateful Finger
    • Tripping Was Quite Fantastic
    • Hair (Spray) Today, Clean Tomorrow
    • It's a Jungle Out There
    • How You Play the Game
    • Special Delivery
    • The Heiress
    • A Message from Mother Goose
    • A Workshop Is a Trying Experience
    • Tell-Tales
  • Chapter 4: A Stitch in Time
    • Time Flies When You're Having Fun
    • Twinkle, Twinkle, Feathered Star
    • Happy Days
    • New and Improved
    • Just Keep A'Rollin', Wagon Wheels
    • That's About the Size of It
    • And I will Make Thee Beds of Roses
    • Beautiful but Dumb
    • Stitchosaurus
    • Our State Fair Is a Great State Fair
  • Chapter 5: The Ties That Bind
    • Kissin' Kin
    • Up by the Hair on His Chinny-Chin-Chin
    • I'm a Calculating Woman
    • Over-Taxed
    • Celestial Navigation
    • Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
    • Ode to Joy
    • To Dye, Perchance to Dream
    • Time and Tide
    • Oh, Chute
    • Leftovers
  • Chapter 6: For the Love of Quilting
    • 10 Things to Do with a Blizzard
    • The Unkindest Cut of All
    • IQ Test
    • Drawn and Quartered
    • Creature Comforts
    • You Are Cordially Invited to a Fashion Show
    • Yield Not to Temptation
    • For the Mature Audience
    • Physical Fitness
    • Starting from Square One
  • About the Author

Title: Every Quilt Tells a Story: A Quilter's Stash of Wit and Wisdom
Author/Designer: Helen Kelley
Format/Publication Date: HC:2003
Publisher: Voyageur Press Inc., Stillwater, MN
Language: English
Page Count: 224
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 7 1/2" x 5 1/4"
ISBN: 0896586235

SUMMARY- If you like stories from Lake Wobegon and This American Life, and you haven't already read all of these because you are a long-time(20 years!) subscriber to "Quilter's Newsletter Magazine", then this will be a great pleasure to read. Her humor is gentle and her small insights are heartfelt and ring true. This is a great book to curl up with a cup of tea when it's raining out and you want something to lift your spirits on an otherwise dreary day. She gave us a Table of Contents with the titles of the articles reprinted here, so I've given you this in case you are hoping to find a particular article and can't lay hands on the issue.