I just finished this book a couple days ago and mailed it off to my quilting mentor. It is a collection of old short stories where quilting was featured. Many of the stories had been published in magazines popular to women. At first the stories seemed pedantic, simplistic and sexist, but then, the settings were in the 1880's and early 1900's and many of the editors were men, so when looking at it in that light, I began to enjoy them for what they were. The end of the book held a nice list of all the quilting books they'd found in their search.
I hope my quilting mentor reads this book and enjoys it like I did. She is researching and collecting research books on old quilts. She rebuilds them in the current, acceptable way which includes saving and "sandwiching" the old parts, rather than cutting and replacing like I had done with the Sun Bonnet Sue quilt.
