Amish: The Classic American Quilt Collection [Hardcover]

Karen Bolesta (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (April 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875967256
• ISBN-13: 978-0875967257
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #515,054 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice Project book of Amish style quilts, June 17, 2001

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Jody Palm "bookgoddess" (Greeneville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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With the title, I was hoping for a book full of pictures of authentic Amish quilts. Nope. This is a Rodale quilt project book, albeit of Amish-style quilts. The projects are nice and are for various levels of experience.

There is a square within a square project that is nice for beginners. There are other projects for beginners: an 81-patch, a split bar, broken dishes, Sunshine and Shadow, a Roman Stripe, and a double irish chain quilt. For the intermediate quilter, there's a Robbing Peter to pay Paul, Chinese Coins variation, a double nine patch (which I would call easy, but since it's on point, maybe it really should be considered intermediate) and a foundation-pieced Log Cabin. For advanced quilters, there's a double-sized pinwheel design they call Sparkle Plenty that is really pretty. The color choices made by the people who designed the projects are appropriate and yet colorful - updated Amish, I would say.

There are basic quilt making directions and some information on the Amish in the back of the book, and some basic quilting designs which can be copied to a size to fit your quilt.

It's a nice book for what it is. Probably of most value to beginners.

1 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The classic american quilt collection, April 4, 1999

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This review is from: Amish: The Classic American Quilt Collection (Hardcover)

I want to see the book that is about quilting and patch work classica