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Amish: The Classic American Quilt Collection

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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.

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