Eight traditional blocks in both 12" and 6" sizes pay tribute to first ladies that have earned their place in history. Relates multiple techniques for the author's favorite blocks named after admirable women as well as interesting tidbits of each of their lives.

Victory Quilts represents a look back in history to the 1940s and life on the home front during the war years. This book offers patterns and techniques for 20 blocks, each one representing a slice of history with a story to tell. The blocks are traditional patterns, popular during the 1940s era. Along with strip piecing, Eleanor teaches her techniques for squaring up triangle-pieced squares, appliqu, flying geese patches, and much more. Make a sampler quilt "set on point" or straight set. Each method is clearly explained and has step-by-step illustrations in full color. Ribbon and swag borders are explained in detail and add unique interest to the quilt projects. Same block repeat patterns are included in addition to a table runner, wall hanging, and other projects. Victory Quilts contains yardage and cutting charts for 5 quilt sizes, and the blocks can be made in either 12" or 6" size. The book has 240 pages packed with lots of extra projects. Templates are included in sturdy cardstock paper. Take a step back in history to the greatest generation and stitch your quilt in memory of those long gone days!

NOW IN PRINT - and All in ONE Book Read The Quilt Ladies Stories and Make the Quilts they are making. All Twelve Quilt stories and Fifteen Quilt patterns are NOW in one place and at one price. Curl up with The Quilt Ladies five very different women come together. The books take you through learning to quilt, starting a business, moving, daily life and death. Each book continues the story and has Complete Quilt Instructions for the quilt the ladies are making in that book. Read The Quilt Ladies stories from a simpler time and a simpler way:Book One - Mary Alice and Emily Brown The story begins as Mary Alice moves into a new community. She discovers what she is made of and how important friends are to her. Complete instructions for Square Star and Star Burst Color.Book Two - Helen and Teresa Continuing the story. Meet two more "Ladies", learn how quilting brings peace into one of their lives. 2 complete quilt patterns, RoadWay and A Square Doll Quilt.Book Three - Jenny As the story moves ahead, the "Ladies" come together in friendship as one of them loses a lot and another gains. Complete quilt instructions for Center Circle.Book Four - Changes Follow along as one of the "Ladies" decides to start a business. Complete quilt instructions for Grandma's Candy Dish, pieced and appliqué.Book Five - The Kitchen A blow of hate brings everyone together. Complete quilt instructions for First 4-Patch.Book Six - Summer at the Farm The children are invited to spend time at the farm, the "Ladies" get involved too Pattern included Star Lap Quilt.Book Seven - Love at Any Age Love is in the air as the summer moves to fall. Complete quilt instructions for Log Cabin PinWheel and Churn-n-Dash Baby Quilt.Book Eight - The Wedding The "Ladies" bring a wedding together, they organize, shop and quilt. Complete quilt instructions for a Pieced and Appliqué Wedding Quilt.Book Nine - Garden Under the Stars Sometimes you have to do what your heart tells you, Mary Alice does. My Garden Under the Stars Quilt Pieced and Appliqué.Book Ten - At Anytime Learning about life from the past, Molly understands what she needs. Quilt instructions for A Sampler Quilt, Twelve pieced blocks.Book Eleven - My Home Stepping forward to do what she knows is right for her and her family. Jenny takes tries to purchase a home, Quilt instructions for Purple Fun.Book Twelve - Tomorrow's for Me Helen listens to herself and understands the past. Quilt instructions for TriangleMeet The Author Beth Ann:I'm a Quilter and an Author who decided to self-publish my quilt books and quilt patterns, with that I became a solo-business owner. I'm taking my quilts and making a dream into a reality. I love quilts, painting, art, reading, furniture, decorating and The Quilt Ladies, they have changed my life.My Books - The Quilt Ladies eBook - https://amzn.to/3arCRRe How to Survive Retirement - eBook and in Print https://amzn.to/2MM0ziR Anxiety of Anxiety - eBook and in Print https://amzn.to/2Q5dnmQ

Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history—from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others. This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts—written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women—documents women’s literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and many others, Quilt Stories is a colorful literary album of stories, poems, and plays that celebrate quilting as a pattern in women’s history. These stories—grouped under the themes of memory, courtship, struggle, mystery, and wisdom—reflect the importance of quilting in the lives of American women, not only as a practical craft and a creative outlet, but also as an integral part of the social community. “The 28 works included in Quilt Stories restore to women a part of their history and their sense of community, an important service in a present time in which quilting has perhaps become a more private and individual art, though it still serves widely as a medium for social exchange and cooperative endeavor.” —Appalachian Quarterly “Macheski has pieced together a variety of literary fabrics into a unique design which represents women’s struggle for identity in a masculine world.” —Benton, Arkansas Courier “Each writing shares a glimpse of what quilting means to those people who practice the art and how it helps us to see, remember, learn, know and express our feelings.” —Quilt World “An innovative approach to writing the history of women.” —Northwest Ohio Quarterly

Every quilt tells a story. There is a universality in those stories as well as in the quilts themselves and the threads that hold them together. In the tradition of Erma Bombeck, Helen Kelley shares her tales of quilts and quiltmaking with trademark charm and wit. This gifted storyteller gathers the snippings, threads, and scraps of everyday life and effortlessly stitches them together to create a narrative to which every quilter can relate. Each piece--from the humorous to the heartwarming--touches your soul and makes you smile, reminding you of your own passion for quilts and the stories they tell. Helen Kelley is an author, instructor, and lecturer, but she is, first and foremost, a quiltmaker. For twenty years, this "Erma Bombeck" of the quilting world has parlayed her passion for all things quilt into her enormously popular "Loose Threads" column in "Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine."

Expanded cinema: avant-garde moving image works that claim new territory for the cinematic, beyond the bounds of familiar filmmaking practices and the traditional theatrical exhibition space. First emerging in the 1960s amidst seismic shifts in the arts, multi-screen films, live cinematic performance, light art, kinetic art, video, and computer-generated imagery - all placed under expanded cinema's umbrella - re-emerged at the dawn of the 2000s, opening a vast new horizon of possibility for the moving image, and perhaps even heralding the end of cinema as we know it. Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia offers a bold new account of its subject, breaking from previous studies and from larger trends in film and art scholarship. Author Jonathan Walley argues that expanded cinema's apparent departure from the traditions and forms of cinema as we know it actually radically asserts cinema's nature and artistic autonomy. Walley also resituates expanded cinema within the context of avant-garde film history, linking it to a mode of filmmaking that has historically investigated and challenged the nature and limits of cinematic form. As an outgrowth of this tradition, expanded cinema offered a means for filmmakers within the avant-garde, regardless of their differing styles, formal concerns, and politics, to stake out cinema's unique aesthetic terrain - its ontology, its independence, its identity. In addition to reconsidering the better-known expanded cinema works of the 1960s and 70s by artists like Andy Warhol, Robert Whitman, and Nam June Paik, Cinema Expanded also provides the first scholarly accounts of scores of lesser-known works across more than 50 years. Making new arguments about avant-garde cinema in general and its complex meditations on the nature of cinema, it urgently addresses current and crucial debates about the fate of the moving image amidst a digital age of near-constant technological change.

There are more than 20 million quilters in the United States, and 78 percent of dedicated quilters read for pleasure. To reach this vast group, we've expanded our line of quilting books by bringing back "A Patchwork of Pieces, previously published in 1993. "Love of Quilts features twenty-eight entertaining short stories about quilts and quilters collected from the pages of classic magazines such as "Godey's Lady's Book, Harper's Bazaar, and "Good Housekeeping, introducing readers to the captivating worlds of quilters in other times and places. From courtings that nearly go astray to husbands and wives brought together by quilts to quilters obsessed with securing scraps, "Love of Quilts has something for every quilter. Fascinating fiction, these stories also provide important social history. This book also includes a bibliography of quilt fiction and a time line that lists American quilt fiction, plays, poems, and patterns published from 1845 to 1940.

"Jo Packham recounts the personal experiences of more than twenty artisans who share their love of textile art and their distinctive talents and techniques. You will look inside their studio spaces and learn how their creative processes make their work fashion the ordinary into the beautiful."--P. [4] of cover.

Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.