Quilting Books

Andersen, Charlotte Warr.  Faces and Places: Images in Applique.  

Aug, Bobbie A.  String Quilts With Style.  

Baker, Cozy.  Kaleidoscopes: Wonders of Wonder.  

Burdick, Nancilu B.  Legacy: The Story of Talula Gilbert Bottoms and her Quilts.  

Burns, Eleanor.  Pioneer Sampler.  

Chainey, Barbara.  The Essential Quilter Project Book.  

Combs, Karen.  Optical Illusions for Quilters.  

Craftworld Books.  Appliqué Quilts.   There are lots of ideas, though I don't much care for the color selections...

Cross, Mary.  Treasures in the Trunk, Quilts of the Oregon Trail.  History is my favorite part of any needlework book, and that's what you find here.  I love to sit and read...not sew all the time!

Dahlstrom, Carol Field.  101 Full Size Quilt Blocks & Borders.  

Deitrich. Mimi.  Baltimore Bouquets.  I love my copy....the pictures are inspirational and she makes all the techniques sound so easy!

Dunn, Sarah Sacks.  Fantastic Finishes.  

Emery, Linda Goodman.  A Treasury of Quilting Designs.  

Eskes, Irma.  Sunbonnet Sue  All Through the Year.  

Etherington, Mary Tendall.  Quilts From Aunt Amy.  

Faoro, Victoria.  Mariner's Compass Quilts.  

____________.  Ohio Star Quilts.  

Gordon, Judith.  American Star Work Coverlets.    

Hargrave, Harriet.  Heirloom Machine Quilting.   

Heim, Judy.  The Quilter's Computer Companion.  

Henson, Dolores.  Quilting Manual.  

Hopkins, Mary Ellen.  The It's OK if You Sit on My Quilt Book.  

Holly, Pat.  60 Machine Quilting Patterns  -Dover-

Jensen, Lynette.  Thimbleberries Guide for Weekend Quilters.  

Johnson-Srebro, Nancy.  Rotary Magic.  

Johnston, Ann.  The Quilter's Book of Design.  

Johnston, Tony.  The Quilt Story.  

Kimball, Jeana.  Red & Green: An Applique Tradition.  Jeana's Books are what got me interested in doing applique by hand.  My daughter's wedding quilt is done with Jeana's designs.  I love it.

Kough, Lynn G.  Quiltmaking for Beginners.  

Landman, Sylvia Ann.  Making Your Quilting Pay for Itself.  

Laury, Jean Ray.  Sunbonnet Sue Get It All Together at Home.  

____________.  Sunbonnet Sue Goes to the Quilt Show.  

Lawther, Gail.  Celtic Quilting.  

Lipsett, Linda Otto.  Remember Me:  Women and Their Friendship Quilts.  

McClun, Diana.  Quilts! Quilts! Quilts!  

___________.  Quilts Galore.  

MacDonagh, Sandra.  Victorian Patchwork Patterns.  

McKendry, Ruth.  Classic Quilts.  

Magaret, Pat Maixner.  Watercolor Quilts.  

Makhan, Rosemary.  Rose Sampler Supreme.  

Marshall, Suzanne.  Take Away Appliqué.  

Martin, Nancy J.  101 Fast Rotary Cut Quilts.

Marston, Gwen.  70 Classic Quilting Patterns.

____________.  Quilting With Style.

Miller, Margaret J.  Strips that Sizzle.  

Miller, Myron.  Sunbonnet Sue Giftwrap Paper!!

Milligan, Lynda.  P.S. I Love You Baby Collection.  

___________.  PS I Love You Two! Baby Collection.  

Mori, Joyce.  The Ultimate Scrap Quilt.  

Ogden, Sharon Cerny.  Optical Illusions Quilt Designs.  

Orlofsky, Patsy.  Quilts in America.  

Penders, Mary Cjoyne.  Color and Cloth: Quiltmaker's Ultimate Workbook.  

Phillips, Cheryl.  WedgeWorks.  

___________.  WedgeWorks II  The 3D Mariner's Compass.   

Porter, Liz.  Quick Quilts from the Heart.  

Purney-Mark, Susan.  Quilted Havens.  

Reikes, Ursula.  Even More Quilts for Baby.  

Reynolds, Bethany S.  Stars A La Carte.  

Rose, Scarlett.  Celtic Style Floral Applique.  

Saunders, Doreen Lynn.  Baltimore Brides' Quilt Designs.  

Searl, Gail.  Sew Many Stars.  

Shackelford, Anita.  Three-Dimensional Appliqué and Embroidery Embellishment.  

Sienkiewicz, Elly.  Baltimore Beauties and Beyond.  

____________.  Fancy Applique.  12 Lessons to Enhance Your Skills.  This is a lovely book for handsewers!!

Smith, Nancy.  Toppers.  

Thomason, Lezette.  Victorian Elegance.  

Townswick, Jane.  Rodale's Successful Quilting Library.  

Wagner, Debra.  All Quilt Blocks are Not Square. 

Walter, Cindy.  Snippet Sensations. 

Wilens, Patricia.  Quick & Easy Scrap Quilts. 

____________.  Scrap Quilts Fast and Fun 

Willing, Karen B.  Quilting Now & Then 

My absolute favorite is Clever Quilts: Making the Most of Panels, Borders, and Theme Prints  by Susan Teegarden Dissmore.  This turned me loose.  I buy so many "cute" fabrics, and then what do I do?? 

Some more recent favorites:

50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars by Carol Doak.  Awesome, because it comes with a CD!  Now *I* know how to do this!  I love it.

Watercolor Quilts  by Pat Maixner Magaret

Watercolor Impressions  by Pat Maixner Magaret

Landscape Quilts  by Namcy Zieman, Natalie Sewell

Fabric Landscapes by machine  by Linda Crone: includes pattern!!

Luscious Landscapes  by Joyce R Becker

Beginner's Guide to Machine Embroidered Landscapes by Alison Holt.  Not strictly quilting, but it belongs with the others!!  It's really full of great ideas.

Fat Quarter Quilts  quiltingbooksonline.com

Quilting Through the year by Debbie Mumm

Pieced Flowers  by Ruth B. McDowell.  Paper piecing, but you MUST enlarge those tiny pictures.

Little Quilts All Through the House by Alice Berg

Quilting Curves by Vikki Pignatelli

Crazy Quilting Books:

Arnett, M. V.  Pieces from the Crazy Quilt: The Childhood Memoirs of a Great-Grandmother

Avery, Kristin.   The Crazy Quilt

Bond, Dorothy.  Crazy Quilt Stitches.  

Causee, Linda.  An Encyclopedia of Crazy Quilt Stitches and Motifs.  

Haywood, Dixie.  Crazy Quilt Patchwork. 

_{______________.   Quick-And-Easy Crazy Quilt Patchwork : With 14 Projects (Dover Needlework Series)}

Haigh, Janet.  Crazy Patchwork.

Keller, Jan.  Pieces from My Crazy Quilt

McMorris, Penny.  Crazy Quilts.  This has been out of print for a long time, and she refuses to allow it to be republished...the ones out there are more valuable that way.  Try a used book service, as this one is supposed to be a good one.  One of the first.

Michler, J. Marsha.  Magic of Crazy Quilting  

______________.  Crazy Quilting by Machine

Montano, Judith Baker.  Crazy Quilt Handbook. 

and the Revised Second Edition is even better!

_________________. Elegant Stitches.  This is a lovely little book, glossy pages all through, and her signature sketches along with lovely photographs makes this a wonderfully inspiring book. 

_________________.  Floral Stitches. 

_________________.  The Art of Silk Ribbon Embroidery.   This is a gorgeous book that focuses on how to use silk ribbons on crazy quilts. 

Samples, Carole K. Parks.  Treasury of Crazy Quilt Stitches.    This is a wonderful treasury of stitches, literally thousands!!  I love my copy and recommend it to anyone who wants to start.  If you can have only one book for combining stitches, this is the one!!   All pages are an off-white, almost parchment, so I could read it in the sun without going blind.  All pages are glossy, too!  Each chapter begins with a black and white photo of a crazy quilt block, all of which are shown at the beginning of the book in color.  And all those drawings showing how to combine, use, and mix stitches are invaluable.

Color Play: Easy Steps to Imaginative Color in Quilts by Joen Wolfrom, Kandy Petersen (Illustrator)

Ghost Layers & Color Washes : Three Steps to Spectacular Quilts by Katie Pasquini Masopust, Katie Pasquini Masopust

The Visual Dance : Creating Spectacular Quilts by Joen Wolfrom

Passionate Patchwork: Over 20 Original Quilt Designs by Kaffe Fassett, Liza Prior Lucy (Contributor)

Quilting Curves by Vikki Pignatelli

Razzle Dazzle Quilts by Judy Hooworth

The New Quilt 2 : Dairy Barn : Quilt National by Christine Timmons (Editor)

Fiberarts Design Book Six by Nancy Orban (Editor), Celia Naranjo (Illustrator)