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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • The Log Cabin: An American Quilt on the Western Frontier
          by Sandi Fox
  • Amish Interiors: Intimate look inside Amish homes, sensitively portrayed by a photographer who lives among these private people
          by Susan Einstein
  • Surviving Without Selling Out: thoughts from a Quilt Artist's Journal
          by Michael James
  • Showcase: 20 contemporary and antique quilts receive due attention in this 1st of our annual salutes to extraordinary quilts and their makers-
    "Hearts"(Jacqueline Eichhorn)
    "Tumbling Blocks"(Margaret Younglove Calvert)
    "President's Quilt"(1852)
    "Sampler"(1880-1890)
    "Bars"(Sarah Beiler)
    "Forty-Eleven"(Sonya Lee Barrington)
    "Album"(1840-1850(Baltimore, MD))
    "Laurel Leaves"(Kazi Pitelka)
    "Log Angeles and Vicinity"(Judy Mathieson)
    "Central Medallion"(Jacqueline Eichhorn)
    "Burgoyne Surrounded"(1852)
    "Star of Bethlehem"(1840)
    "Night Rainbow V: the Secondary Bow"(Chris Wolf)
    "Crazy"(Emma Bull)
    "Wild Flowers"(Elizabeth Boris)
    "Delectable Mountains"(1850,Herr Family)
    "Triad #6"(Leslie Carabas)
    "String Star"(1900-1920)
    "Leaves"(1850,on cover)
    "Dawn"(Jan Myers)
          compiled by Roderick Kiracofe
  • The Reiter Quilt: A Family Story in Cloth- American odyssey of a Jewish immigrant and her remarkable quilt are lovingly presented in this ode to the needlewomen of the past
          by Julie Silber
  • The Collector: Free Spirit in the West- Country's most extensive gathering of Amish quilts
          by Michael Kile
  • Collecting Quilt Data: History from Statistics, part 1- Best known quilt historian presents a versatile quilt questionnaire as an indispensable research tool for collectors, curators, and historians
          by Jonathan Holstein
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Title: Quilt Digest, Book 1
editor: Michael M Kile
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1983
Publisher: The Quilt Digest Press
Language: English
Page Count: 71
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 8 1/2" x 11"
ISBN: None

SUMMARY- This is a collection of essays about the history of quilts and quilters, written by prominent names in the field. The editor took his subject seriously and presents some fascinating articles.