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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1: Every Stitch Tells a Story
    • Thoughts on Masterpieces
    • Life on an Ocean Wave
    • Mama, Where Did I Come From?
    • I Am a Lady
    • Sweets for the Sweet
    • Doing What Comes Naturally
    • Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty
    • The Ten Steps of Separation from My Fabric
    • That Old Time Religion
    • Tennis Elbow
  • CHAPTER 2: License to Quilt
    • X-Rated
    • Carpe Diem (Seize the Moment)
    • Here's a Toast to Quilting!
    • I Got Music
    • License No. HK-428-27
    • Riding Lesson
    • Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee
    • Six Delicious Flavors
    • Four Days
    • Tut Tut!
    • When All Else Fails
    • Darn It!
  • CHAPTER 3: Common Threads
    • When I'm Calling You
    • Chit Chat
    • Griselda
    • Tuna Melt
    • Punch Drunk
    • Who Is the Fairest One of All?
    • Shape Up or Ship Out
    • Let Them Eat Cake
    • How Sweet It Is!
    • Heavenly Days
    • Pearly Whites
  • CHAPTER 4: The House that Quilts Built
    • Flight of Fancy
    • The High-Powered Finisher-Upper
    • Trash Collection
    • To Err Is Human
    • Little Drops of Water
    • Memories Are Made of This
    • Like a Bolt Out of the Blue
    • A Little Squirrely
    • The Theory of Relativity
    • The Ups and Downs of Life
    • Sunshine and Shadows
  • CHAPTER 5: I'd Rather Be Quilting
    • Out of Order
    • Excuse My Dust
    • One Giant Leaf for Mankind
    • Will You Join the Dance?
    • Ecclesiastes
    • It Is Sometimes Easier to Ride a Camel through the Eye of My Needle than to Thread It
    • Sinking to a New Low
    • Aitch-too-oh
    • Time Goes By
    • Little Things Mean a Lot
    • My Druthers
    • Small Favors
  • CHAPTER 6: This Patchwork Life
    • Ode to a Grecian Urn
    • Encore! Encore!
    • Silver Threads
    • Sounds Good to Me
    • Hands Off!
    • A La Mode
    • Feeling Groovy
    • Love's Old Sweet Song
    • Declaration of Independence
    • Pretty Contemporary
  • About the Author

Title: Loose Threads: Stories to Keep Quilters in Stitches
Author/Designer: Helen Kelley
Format/Publication Date: HC:2008
Publisher: Voyageur Press Inc., Stillwater, MN
Language: English
Page Count: 224
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 7 1/2" x 5 1/4"
ISBN: 9780760332030

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.