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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Creating a Story Quilt: The Process:
    • Selecting a Topic
    • Creating a File Folder
    • Collecting Quilt Blocks
    • Amassing a Fabric Collection
    • Selecting a Color Scheme
    • "D" Day
  • 2. Remembering Childhood:
    • Learning to Accept Ourselves: "Make-believe Summer: At the Beach"
            by Mary Mashuta
    • School Days: "Little Redheaded Girl"
            by George Taylor
    • Birthdays: "February 10th"
            by Karren Elsbernd
    • First Times: "Let's Pretend"
            by Emma Allebes
    • Rites of Passage Journeys: "Capezio Shoe-fly"
            by Mary Mashuta
    • Memorable Events: "The Devastating Hurricane of 1938"
            by Celia LoPinto
  • 3. Family Stories, Tales, and Memories:
    • Family Trips: "Westward Ho!"
            by Mary Mashuta
    • Remembering Mothers: "Emma's Eggs"
            by B.J. Welden
    • Commemorating Fathers: "Fritz's Dimond Roller Rink"
            by Barbara Dallas
    • Living With Husbands: "One Arm Bandit"
            by Bonnie Bucknam Holmstrand
    • Family Pets: "Smokey the Cat: Rescue at Midnight"
            by Mabry Benson
  • 4. Work Experiences:
    • Honoring Work: "Hanky for the Teacher"
            by Mary Mashuta
    • Humanitarian Work: "Someday May They All Be Free"
            by Leslie Hatch-Wong
    • Unasked-for Work: "Ladies of the Board"
            by Janice Ohlson Richards
    • Unusual Work: "Lucy Flagbody Goes Fishing"
            by Jeanie Smith
    • Leaving a Job: "Farewell to Mercy"
            by Mary Mashuta
    • Finding a New Career: "I Just Want to Make Red Shoes"
            by Lynn Brown
  • 5. Coping with Life:
    • Natural Disasters: "Quake of '89"
            by Mary Mashuta
    • Near Accidents: "Incident at Harris Ranch"
            by Beverly Karau
    • Working Through Negative Experiences: "Hong Kong Blues"
            by Kay Sakanashi
    • Understanding What Is Meant to Be: "Release"
            by Deanna Davis
    • Losing Loved Ones: "Sunset at Mazatland: The Beginning of Tomorrow"
            by Peggy Johnson
  • 6. Vacations and Travel:
    • Foreign Fabrics: "Gaijin"
            by Mary Mashuta
    • Foreign Images: "Feasts and Facets: Memories of Portugal"
            by Judy Sogn
    • Family Vacations: "Sierra Getaway"
            by Kathleen Dimond
    • Sport Triumphs: "Look But Don't Touch"
            by Elizabeth Aneloski
    • Business Trips: "The Colors of Vegas"
            by Charlene Phinney
  • 7. Social Commentary:
    • Commenting on War: "Coming to Terms"
            by Mary Mashuta
    • History as Viewed by an Observer: "Exodus: April 1942"
            by Donna Egan Holt
    • History as Lived by a Participant: "Letting Go"
            by Naoko Anne Ito
    • Man-made Disasters: "Minor Inconveniences"
            by Bonnie Bucknam Holmstrand
    • Promoting Worthy Causes: "Ivory is for Elephants"
            by Barbara Dallas
  • 8. Design:
    • Finding a Focus for Your Design
    • Devising a Design Format
    • Using Images
    • Building the Quilt Around Quilt Blocks
            Quilt Blocks as Background
            Quilt Blocks as Borders
    • Designing Without Quilt Blocks
    • Using Words on Quilts
    • Creating Quilt Backs
    • Quilting
            Designs
            Hand and Machine Quilting
  • 9. Techniques:
    • Making Blocks
    • Drafting
    • Templates
    • Assembly
    • Raw-edge Applique Blocks
    • Sewing Tips
    • Pressing Tips
  • Conclusion
  • Patterns
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix Sources

Title: Story Quilts: Telling Your Tale in Fabric
Author/Designer: Mary Mashuta
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1992
Publisher: C&T Publishing, Lafayette, CA
Language: English
Page Count: 96
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0914881477

SUMMARY- The majority of the book is a gallery of stories behind the story quilts - all done by students of Mary Mashuta. So you get to see a lot of examples of what Mary means by story quilt. She then gives you her design process, so you can give it a try yourself. She stresses that the process of making the quilt has always been far more important than whether others like it or that it win ribbons. There is a full color gallery of the story quilts collected in the center of the book.

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