Overview

In the United States today, there are more than twenty-two million quilters who collectively spend more than one billion dollars on quilting every year. The annual International Quilt Festival attracts more than 50,000 dedicated visitors from around the world. Festival prize money can reach $100,000. Drawn into this material world by a newspaper assignment, Spike Gillespie soon found the personalities who populate serious quiltmaking as compelling as the art itself. Quilty as Charged is not a history or how-to guide; it is a collection of many small stories, including Gillespie's, stitched together in the spirit of quilting, separate scraps made into a cohesive cloth. Quilting today is a world of traditionalists and visionary artists, collectors and connoisseurs, and it encourages the same intrigue, innovation, and inspiration found in ""fine"" art. (Many of the quilts themselves hang, deservedly, in fine art museums.) Inevitably, Gillespie begins piecing together a quilt. But while her effort begins as a helpful tool for understanding her subjects, what she ultimately understands is that she, like all inspired quilters, is sewing her own pattern.

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Author:   Spike Gillespie
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780292705999

ISBN 10:   0292705999
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 October 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Mysteries of Quilting Revealed Chapter One. Quilt Show Virgin Chapter Two. Sew What?! Chapter Three. Seams Challenging Enough Chapter Four. My First Real Quilt (An Attempt) Part II: Meet the Quilters Chapter Five. Felonious Punk Chapter Six. Caveman Quilting Chapter Seven. Je Ne Sais Quilt Chapter Eight. Another Kind of Quilting Cotton Chapter Nine. Give Us This Day Our Dailey Thread Chapter Ten. Meet My Famous Mother . . . er . . . Daughter Chapter Eleven. Reaping What They Sew Chapter Twelve. You Can't Break Rules You Don't Know Chapter Thirteen. Peacing It Together Chapter Fourteen. Those Who Can, Do; Those Who Can, Also Teach Chapter Fifteen. Sewing on the River (and Everywhere Else) Chapter Sixteen. Manly Quilt Man Chapter Seventeen. One Quilt, One Love Chapter Eighteen. Bee Queen Chapter Nineteen. Binding Epilogue

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Spike Gillespie is the author of Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away), among other books. Her essays and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, Texas Monthly, and the Dallas Morning News, among other publications.

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