Book review- Once Upon A Quilt

Once Upon A Quilt - A Scrapbook of Quilting of Past and Present, Margaret Aldrich, Editor.

If you like quilts and quilt history, this is a beautiful book to have. It is all kinds of stories and articles related to quilting; some fiction, some non-fiction. In addition to the stories, there is artwork, vintage advertisements, vintage pictures of people and quilts, pictures of old and new quilts scattered throughout the book.

A sample from the Table of Contents:

"Why We Love Quilts"

"Fannie and the Busy Bees"

"The Low Cost of Quilting" - a humorous writing from a bewildered husband whose wife has recently taken up quilting on their retirement income.

"The Quilter's Hall of Fame"

This is a feel good book, one that you might want to crawl up with on a cold rainy day with a cup of hot tea, a book to settle down with when the nostalgia bug starts buzzing around and your spirit needs a lift. The artwork and pictures inside makes it so inviting to spend a long relaxing time with the book.

It isn't an instruction book, there are no patterns or how-tos in this book.

Amazon.com has it for $14.95, the printed price on the back cover is $19.95 U.S.