Stash Enhancement at Library

Found it on eBay. It's called Let's Make a Patchwork Quilt by Jessie
MacDonald.

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"frood" wrote in message
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What? You want me to get up out of this comfy chair to go look? Sounds
like
the right one, tho!

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"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
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I know that book!!! Ive seen it on Ebay a thousand times. My exMIL had
it
too. Bandana quilts, quilts made with Huge Poofy Poly Batts, applique
quilts
with Massively Huge 5 petalled flowers... did I guess right?
Diana
matthew 6:2-4



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I have several vintage quilting or sewing books. My favorite was
purchased
at a local charity rummage sale. DS saw it, and knew I would like it,
so
spent 50 cents of his own money to buy it for me! That's why it's my
favorite. Certainly not for the vintage 70s projects! G

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"Pat in Virginia" wrote in message
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Stash Enhancement at the Library?
Yep, I enhanced my stash at my wonderful county library. My BOOK
stash that is! Our Friends of the Library Volunteer Organization
maintains a small resale room in our branch. It probably has a
few hundred books, from the library discards and patron donations.

Yesterday I found a vintage quilting book!! It is an old copy of
a reprinted book. (Got it?) IOW, the book was originally
published in 1949 by one house, and then reissued in 1959 by
Dover Publishing.

Title: The Standard Book of Quilt Making and Collecting

Author: Marguerite Ickis

Cover Price: $4.95
(I also have same title with a cover price of $3.50)


Does anyone else like vintage quilting books? PAT in VA/USA

Pat in Virginia wrote:

Does anyone else like vintage quilting books? PAT in VA/USA


I bought a couple of months ago on Ebay "Quliting" by Averil Colby.
That's the one really worth bragging about. I like collecting quilt
history books.

'Cause I'm a loon who likes the earlier history thereof.

-georg

What a coincidence: I have her book 'Patchwork'.
..

In article , georg
writes
I bought a couple of months ago on Ebay "Quliting" by Averil Colby.
That's the one really worth bragging about. I like collecting quilt
history books.

'Cause I'm a loon who likes the earlier history thereof.

-georg


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Best Regards
pat on the hill

Good deal, Pat!

I scout out library sales, rummage sales, and the clearance corner at quilt
shops. I re-sell through Quilting Traders and Quilt Market. (Hickory
Hill -- google it to get the URL -- has a books wanted/books for sale
section, too.)

Nann



"Pat in Virginia" wrote in message
news:kzTQc.1414$73.383@lakeread04...
Stash Enhancement at the Library?
Yep, I enhanced my stash at my wonderful county library. My BOOK
stash that is! Our Friends of the Library Volunteer Organization
maintains a small resale room in our branch. It probably has a
few hundred books, from the library discards and patron donations.

Yesterday I found a vintage quilting book!! It is an old copy of
a reprinted book. (Got it?) IOW, the book was originally
published in 1949 by one house, and then reissued in 1959 by
Dover Publishing.

Title: The Standard Book of Quilt Making and Collecting

Author: Marguerite Ickis

Cover Price: $4.95
(I also have same title with a cover price of $3.50)


Does anyone else like vintage quilting books? PAT in VA/USA

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 17:27:46 -0700, "maryd" wrote:

We collect vintage books on any subject. We have classics, textbooks,
children's books, etc. But no quilt books yet.

Oh we have to be so careful at thrift shops and suchlike, we have had
to skip the library book sale for three whole years in a row!
You see, we have run out of room. We have painfully jammed
bookshelves in every room of the house but the bathroom (that kind of
humidity is not good for books), we have stacks of books and boxes of
books all over the place. At least half of our books are 50 years old
or more, a good number are over 100. Even many of our new books are
reissues of old books.

But I don't have any old quilt books. In fact I only have 3 dedicated
quilt books to my name. One on paper piecing that DH got me ( it has
gone walkabout or I would say what it is), the BH&G one they gave out
as one of the freebies when you joined their bookclub, and "The Big
Book of Quilting" ed. by Cassie B Farkas. kiripet got that one for me
out of the bargin bin at Waldens because she saw it had some Dairy
Barn winners in it and I had mentioned wanting to see a picture of a
particular one (which for a wonder is actually in the book!).

Garment sewing and general sewing now, I have a bunch of old books on
that. I am generally of the considered opinion that the older books
are of greater value than the newer ones, because they actually tell
you how to do things. Way too many of the newer books I have had a
look at rely on particular patterns from particular companies, or
particular gadgets, or are specialized to a given technique. Those
can be good things, but where are the books on the basics?
One of my greatest treasures in sewing books is a worn and tattered
Vogue pocket book from WWII that deals with modifying old clothes into
new fashions useing a minimum of new fabric. Many many basic things
are explained clearly and concisely in that one. I wish I could get
copies for my sewing inclined daughters.
Most new books don't even tell you how to sew on a button properly,
much less give more than one way to do a buttonhole without an
automatic machine.

NightMist
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"It's such a gamble when you get a face"
- Richard Hell

....and then yesterday I walk into the library and find a new copy of the
Jinny Beyer book. It is all going back to hand work and she likes to
cut patches by hand. Go figure.
Taria

Pati Cook wrote:
I agree Polly. The older books are geared for older techniques, and slower
times. But the basic patterns are classics, and can be adapted to newer
techniques.
Not something I would encourage beginners to start with, though.......... unless
they are going the old template/mark/hand piece way.

Pati, in Phx.

Polly Esther wrote:


Well, yes, but . . . my young neighbor recently bought some older quilting
books and, to be terribly honest, I thought they were quite cruel. They made
procedures look like any dimwit ought to be able to toss them out quickly,
and they did steps so tediously that don't have to be. I hadn't truly
appreciated the new books so very much until I compared them with the ones
she bought. Polly, now tottering off the podium