RX for Quilters: Stitcher-Friendly Advice for Every Body [Paperback]

Susan DeLaney Mech (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2000

Research confirms that simple sewing tasks lower your heart rate and blood pressure. Quilting and other stitching activities offer relaxation, calming rhythms, and healthy benefits. This manual offers advice on how to care for your body so that your stitching life can be comfortable and pain-free. It discusses how to avoid common injuries to your hands, wrists, neck, shoulders and back, and how to improve fitness and manage weight with real-world tips on healthy eating and simple daily exercise. The author also addresses how hormonal shifts, pregnancy, ageing, and personal injury or illness can affect your stitching.

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About the Author

Susan Delaney Mech, M.D., psychiatrist, quiltmaker, and author of a long-running column on women's health issues for Quilt World magazine, lives near Dallas, in Plano, Texas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: C&T Publishing (March 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571200924
• ISBN-13: 978-1571200921
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,488,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every woman should own this book!, April 27, 2000

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Gloria Hansen (NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RX for Quilters: Stitcher-Friendly Advice for Every Body (Paperback)

Although this book is directed at quilters, any person doing any type of repetitive activity can benefit from the wealth of sensible advice offered in this little gem of a book. The tone is friendly, not preachy. The advice sound, not off-the-wall or a struggle to implement. The book's information is wide in scope--covering everything from back, neck, and eye health to time management, healthy eating, and simple exercise--and its presentation is in an easy-to-follow format. My favorite piece of advice from Dr. Susan Delaney Mech is taking a 10 minute break every hour--it's good for your body and can make you 25% more productive. My advice is to get this book for yourself and for those you care about.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent, unusual, health approach for needlecrafters., July 4, 2000

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RX for Quilters: Stitcher-Friendly Advice for Every Body (Paperback)

Susan Delaney Mech's Rx For Quilters provides over five hundred tips for quilting and stitching which are peculiar to health concerns; from avoiding injury to a stitchers' hands, wrists and neck to learning how injury or hormonal shifts affect stitching and avoiding carpal tunnel syndrome and age-related eye changes. An excellent, unusual health approach every stitcher should own.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Prescription for Stitchers: READ Rx for Quilters, June 4, 2000

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M. L. Ayars, Ph.D. (Colleyville, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RX for Quilters: Stitcher-Friendly Advice for Every Body (Paperback)

Dr. Mech writes a prescription for two common complaints of quiltmakers -- "never enough time" and "I ache." She advises: Correct the physical characteristics of your workspace and practice a series of simple exercises for your back, neck, and hands. I read Dr. Mech's book because pain in my neck and shoulders kept me from my favorite hobby -- quilting. I have long been aware of ergonomics in relation to my computer work area, but it never occurred to me to transfer that knowledge to my play area. I am now following her advice; I can work many more hours without discomfort and I expect to complete my holiday quilt BEFORE the holiday. I recommend this book with its easy to read text and easy to follow exercises.