Product Description

It’s not your grandmother’s quilt world anymore. Quilting today is a phenomenally popular hobby, artform, and business, often rolled into one, that attracts 21 million avid quilters who spend $2.27 billion annually on their passion. There are 2,500 quilt shops around the country, popular television series, guilds, Web sites, and national fairs—one in Houston draws 50,000 visitors each year.

Meg Cox, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, is one of the obsessive new quilters, and in The Quilter's Catalog, she draws on all her skills as a journalist to write the essential resource for contemporary quilters. Here’s the low-down on tools: computer-driven sewing machines, innovative rotary cutters, longarms. New and old techniques, from how to dye your own fabric to cutting-edge digital photo-transfer. Profiles of the twenty top quilting teachers— television’s Alex Anderson, Esterita Austin and her award-winning landscape quilts, Ruth McDowell, known for her bravura technique. Who makes the best fabrics and how to find them. A complete resource guide to the best Web sites, online groups, books, patterns, stores, shows, challenges. And a look at the new world of quiltaholics: its sense of community, its opportunities for business, its controversies (hand-sewn vs. machine-sewn), its attractions—quilting is easy, portable, friendly, therapeutic, often profitable, and the perfect way to mark a milestone.

The book includes 12 step-by-step projects from key teachers—a crib quilt, bed quilts, quilted ornaments—and instructions on how to hang, store, or ship a quilt.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72640 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 600 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780761138815
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Meg sent me a copy of her book the other day, The Quilter's Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource Guide, and I'm here to tell you that it's absolutely, mind bogglingly, out of this world. The sheer volume of work that this former Wall Street Journal reporter put into this guide is astonishing and I defy any quilter (or non-quilter for that matter) to diss it.
Along with more than several step-by-step projects, Meg goes into depth on the issues and products we want to know about – longarms, fabric dyeing, new vs. old techniques, up-to-the minute quilting tools, and interviews with the top quilting personalities known today (Well, not me but her book was written before we met. How's that for luck?). Honestly, if you have a quilt related question, it's answered in this book.
Listen to this. The book's retail price is an astonishing $17.95 ( www.amazon.com is selling it for $12.21!) making it the very best value of any current quilt related book on the market today. How could you possibly pass it up? Kids, this is huge and I assure you that The Quilter's Catalog will be my bedside and sewing room reading for years to come!
—Mark Lipinski, Quilter's Home Magazine (Mark Lipinski Quilter's Home Magazine )

Meg sent me a copy of her book the other day, The Quilter's Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource Guide, and I'm here to tell you that it's absolutely, mind bogglingly, out of this world. The sheer volume of work that this former Wall Street Journal reporter put into this guide is astonishing and I defy any quilter (or non-quilter for that matter) to diss it. Along with more than several step-by-step projects, Meg goes into depth on the issues and products we want to know about longarms, fabric dyeing, new vs. old techniques, up-to-the minute quilting tools, and interviews with the top quilting personalities known today (Well, not me but her book was written before we met. How's that for luck?). Honestly, if you have a quilt related question, it's answered in this book. Listen to this. The book's retail price is an astonishing $17.95 ( www.amazon.com is selling it for $12.21!) making it the very best value of any current quilt related book on the market today. How could you possibly pass it up? Kids, this is huge and I assure you that The Quilter's Catalog will be my bedside and sewing room reading for years to come! Mark Lipinski, Quilter's Home Magazine (Quilter's Home Magazine )

Review
Meg Cox's scrapbag of lessons and lore takes the mystery out of quilting while leaving the mystique. The Quilt Catalog is an essential companion for quilters and quilt-lovers.
—Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass and The Quilt That Walked to Golden

From the Back Cover
The Bee-All and End-All

The complete quilter's companion and essential resource jam-packed with information, supplies, expert interviews, techniques, community, and inspiration.

• All the tools of the trade: rotary cutters, sewing machines, longarms, and design software; fabulous fabrics and where to find them; and if you're just starting out, everyting that belongs in a quilting basket.
• The online world made manageable with a guide to the most useful blogs, web sites, e-mail lists, free patterns, and podcasts.
• National and regional shows, guilds, and the best retreats and quilt museums.
• Batting parties, tutorials on fabric dyeing, and a breezy history of the quilt boom.
• Profiles of twenty top teachers—including television's Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson, Esterita Austin and her award-winning landscape quilts, and Ruth B. McDowell, known for her bravura technique.
• This is a book to help every quilter deepen and grow—keep it as close as your stash of fat quarters.

Customer Reviews

This book is AMAZING.
I loved this book from the moment I held it. It is a nice, thick, quality book. But it's what inside that makes it superb. There is a wealth of information on just about everything you would want to know about quilting. One area that really surprised me was the author's information on websites - I thought I knew them all and she had a ton of sites I had never found (the listing of sites for African fabric was amazing!). The author's profiles of great teachers also make for great reading. She helps the reader understand the passion and need to create of these folks and to me, that is worth the price of this book alone. I can tell you this - The Quilters Catalog will be in my top five. Thank you so much for writing this book. It is evident it was a labor of love.

A True Treasure for Beginning to Advanced Quilters
Whether you're new to quilting, or have been quilting for years, I'm sure you'll find useful or interesting material in Meg Cox's new book. In addition to being a great resource, this book is a fantastic read - full of stories and history. You'll find suggested websites to visit for everything from where to donate quilts, to sites for your favorite quilt artists and teachers. There are sections for cool tools (like the reducing glass which was new to me), and tips from the top quilting teachers. I've been quilting for four years and have two very basic sewing machines that I use for piecing (I'm hopeless at machine quilting). Now, thanks to Meg's book, I found out that there a machines where you can use your knee to raise the presser foot - who knew? I just may need one of those! Plus there are twelve great projects. I can't wait to make my own fruit tart pin cushion, but my own rule that there cannot be more than three projects in the works means that I'll have to finish up that New York Beauty quilt before I embark. Happy Quilting to all who buy this book!

raves for gifts
When I gave quilters this book, it got raves. It's so packed full of intriguing bits of information, and also with enticing projects. I'm not a quilter, but the bright photos and the easy-seeming instructions make me want to get out my needle and threads. BFF