These books are my all time favorite books for beautiful quilt drawings with a wonderful story to go with the drawings. I have these two books in my personal collection because I got tired of checking them out of the library. The basic thread through the books is a quilt maker who simply makes quilts to give away to others.
Quilts can be a great way to help others. Some quilts are meant to be heirlooms (which means they are used very gently with the plan of passing them on to family, friends, or maybe a museum). Some quilts are made to be used and loved to death. There is room in my quilt crazy world for both.
The really nice things about making quilts for others is that I get to pick the person or organization, I get to work at home on my schedule, and I get that wonderful warm fuzzy feeling because of doing something super nice for someone who probably cannot do anything for me back. Ok, so in some ways it is selfish.
If you are reading this and need some ideas of where to look in your community for places that you can donate quilts or even mentor beginner quilts, please contact me for ideas.
Years later I found the pattern book to go with the story books and had to add it to my personal collection.
