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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1: 'Round the Quilt Frame
    • Blessed Endurance
    • To Sleep: Perchance to Dream
    • Oh, Baby, Look at Me Now!
    • Pseudo Suits Me
    • Say It Loud and Clear
    • Feeling Good
    • I come With Attachments
    • Mixed Blessings
    • Touch-Me-Not
    • Sweet Mystery
  • CHAPTER 2: Glory Be!
    • On Necessity and Invention
    • Fitting and Proper
    • The Name's the Game
    • It's Always an Adventure
    • Another Slant
    • Siren Song
    • Hind Sight
    • Thanks, I Needed That!
    • Security Blanket
    • All That's Gold Does Not Glitter
    • All Right, Sew What?
  • CHAPTER 3: Tying Up Loose Ends
    • Setting Priorities
    • Hip! Hip! Hooray!
    • It's How You Play the Game
    • My Life Doesn't Add Up
    • Wonder Woman vs the World
    • The State of Civilization
    • Up to My Neck in Deep Water
    • Showers of Blessings
    • Thread Sales in the Sunset
    • No Strings Attached
    • A Little Something Worth Mentioning....
    • Craziness
  • CHAPTER 4: Words By Which to Sew a Stitch
    • Words to Live By
    • My Stars!
    • Sea Sighs
    • Thursday's Child
    • Bittersweet
    • Quoth the Raven
    • A Fable
    • My Refuge, and My Strength
    • My Heart Leaps Up
    • Following the Thread of the Story
    • Eensy Weensy Spider
  • CHAPTER 5: Family Matters
    • The Great Cover-Up
    • Measure for Measure
    • "M"
    • Bye Baby Bunting
    • There Is a Season
    • My Luv Is Not a Red, Red Quilt
    • Baby, Take a Bow!
    • Sitting Pretty
    • Plying My Trade
  • CHAPTER 6: A Stitch in Time
    • Facing the New Year
    • Stormy Weather
    • Am I Blue?
    • Cure for a Common Cold
    • Grandma's Flower Garden, Kinda
    • How Does Your Garden Grow?
    • As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Sew
    • Reconsidering the Lilies
    • The Winds of Was
    • I Am Venus
    • Tenderfoot
  • About the Author

Title: The Joy of Quilting: More Wit and Wisdom from America's Most Popular Quilting Columnist
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: 1552855856

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.