Quilting Books

This book is helping me sew my first quilt. It is a wonderful guide, and has great diagrams, explanations, and quilt designs. I'm thrilled with how easy it is to use, and with the way the quilt is turning out. I highly, highly recommend the book.

I started quilting two years ago and since that time I have made quite a few quilts. Easy ones, hard ones and I have wanted to do more complex quilts. At least I thought I did until now. I don't remember how I found this particular quilt book but I love it! The quilts are easy, especially using the "big" blocks in the projects. The directions are easy, step by step in simple terms. The color options are limitless and I am having a ball making these quilts. I have just started one for my father for Christmas in plaids and it is beautiful. I know I wil get another one done, just in time!
I also love scrappy quilts and there are plenty of options for wonderful projects.
I just can't say enough about this book.
If you like "simple" but beautiful, then this book is for you!

Although this book was written in 1993 it is not dated. The information given is for the beginner as well as experienced quilter. The diagrams and pictures are very useful and truly help if you're a visual learner like I am. There are 26 projects which are all attractive. I am sure you will find several quilts to make. I can't wait to start the cottages. For the low cost, you simply can't go wrong here.

This is an excellent book for the quilter with one or more quilts under their belt. The four different authors provide different perspectives, design sense, and techniques, which I found valuable in developing my own style.

Any quilt book by Debbie Mumm can be counted upon to deliver certain things: lots of charming designs organized by theme so you can mix and match, excellent instructions, and inspiring photos. This book also gives you numerous small projects you can make for gifts, some really quick decorating ideas, and a nice section on organizing your holiday preparations.
In addition to the specifically Christmas designs with Santas, angels, nutcrackers, and such, there are projects with hearts, tools, fish, apples, and animals which could be made at any time of year. The general directions are excellent. While there are no projects for full-sized quilts, the book has enough information and enough attractive quilt blocks that you could easily come up with one yourself. Contrariwise, if you have a book of quilt blocks and need directions for putting them to use in gift and household items, this book will also fill that need.
Quilters need this book for their Christmas shelf, and people who might like to dabble in quilting can use it to get started.

This was my first quilting experience Bible! I was able to follow all instructions and guidlines with ease. I now have a new life long hobby. This book is FULL of superb hints, tips and creative suggestions. The beginner or Master quilter will enjoy every page!

I love this book. It is informative as well as enjoyable. She is a
delight both as a quilter and as an author.
Bonnie Cadwell

Even if you are a novice, this book is wonderful ... complete and easy diagrams and instructions, beautiful illustrations, fun to read.

This is my second year using the Quilt Art Calendar. The size is small enough to fit in my purse, yet large enough to keep track of all those things I don't want to forget. At the end of year the calendar is kept not just for my notes but for the beautiful quilts that I continue to admire.

The new QUILT ART 2008 ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR is on the market and makes for a perfect engagement planning gift for avid quilters. Each week-long period is presented with plenty of room for write-ins and a facing full-page quilt sample in full color, with a color sidebar of detail on the piece's origins, creation, and size. A complete month view occupies a second sidebar on the bottom of each page, making for especially easy reference when setting dates.

As a quilter I look for great quilt books. I bought this calendar in Boston and went to Amazon (we live in a place without book stores) to try and order more, and there it was!!! A great gift and so accessible with Amazon!

Cyril I. Nelson's Quilt Engagement calendar has been published for twenty-five years and consistently offers pictures of fine examples of both new and antique quilts. The definitions are concise with information about the quilt and often times the quilter. The quilts are beautifully photographed and clearly show detail. Year after year this calendar shows excellent examples of superb quilting - 1999 is no exception. The calendar pages offer plenty of space for tracking appointments a week at a time. The way this calendar is assembled, the reader, at the completion of the year can remove the dated (calendar) pages and have an album of fifty-two handsome quilts to use as inspiration or reference. These books can then be saved in one's library for years to come.

As someone who buys literally dozens of resource books for each hobby, trust me when I say this one is priceless -- especially for the more than reasonable cost. It's not as flashy as a Fons and Porter book, but it's packed with all the basics and some great fundamentals that most books skip over. It's like having your own very experienced quilter there to helps whenever you need. I find myself still grabbing it whenever I get a little stuck or doubt myself or get a little confused by something from another book. Whatever style of quilting you do, this book is essential to your collection.

If you are new at quilting this book gives very good instructions on how to make a quilt with little or no experience. Everything is step by step with an example to show you what to do step by step. I believe you will just enjoy it no end.

If you enjoy Better Homes and Gardens' other books and magazines you will really like this book! Each of the many designs in this book has a large color picture of the quilt, clear directions, and each quilt has a diagram of 'optional sizes' so that you can make the quilt any size. The end of the book has 14 pages of information for the beginner quilter. Along with complete and concise directions and the basic directions in the back, this book would be a good choice for beginners. There is also a wonderful variety of designs including the tradional Log Cabin and Nine Patch blocks along with more challenging designs like Robbing Peter to Pay Paul and Storm at Sea. This book also contains patterns for Red Work and Applique lovers.

Another great feature of this book, something that as a quilter I look for, is that each design has 3 or 4 variations. For instance the Robbing Peter to Pay Paul quilt is first represented in the classic red and white, but there is also a pillow in stripes and plaids and also a tablerunner made in a floral yellow patterned fabric--all of the same design! Laura Boehnke, quilt tester of American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, does what she does best by designing the alternate choices in color and design for the patterns.

For individuals looking for a book that has a great number and variety of patterns and for individuals needing inspiration to see patterns worked in different color schemes, this is a great book! I am very glad I purchased this!

I was given Quilt-Lovers' Favorites Vol. 3 as a gift and loved that book so much I decided to buy Vol. 1. I am so glad I did; this was a great purchase. There are so many quilts I want to make from this book I can't decide which one to start first. What I like about this book are the different color options, the various sizing options (especially crib sizes which I like to give as gifts), and the actual quilting pattern that you can copy at the end of the book (if the pattern isn't provided the description of the quilting pattern is explained instead of the standard "quilt as desired" phrase.)

If you aren't familiar with Quilt-Lovers' Favorites, I recommend trying Vol. 1 & 3. The pictures are great, the instructions are straight forward, and the results are excellent. I'm sure I will try Vol. 2 and 4 in the near future.

"Here the concepts of the church as the eucharistic community extending through time and space, salvation as forgiveness and newness of life, and the authority of revelation as enacting the salvation event are mutually integral." Paul R. Hinlicky, Toward integrating theosis and justification by faith



Temporal Vs. Eternal Salvation:
"One of the greatest semantic misunderstandings concerns the way in which the terms 'salvation','atonement', and 'redemption' are used by Roman Catholics. Protestants have a distinctive and narrowly focused set of meanings for these terms. When they read Catholic documents that use these terms in larger senses, it appears to them that Catholics are stating teachings that deny the sufficiency of Christ's cross; reading a Catholic book one encounters the expression that one may atone for one's iniquity by faithfulness and love, and would have an attack of apoplexy. "No one can atone for own sins!" they would exclaim, "That is a denial of the sufficiency of the cross. Only Christ atone for us!"
"Since it is true that only Christ can atone for our sins in one sense, we must therefore conclude that Proverbs 16:6, "By love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord a man avoids evil," is speaking of atonement in a different sense. And since only Christ can atone for the eternal effects of our sins, we must conclude that Proverbs 16 speaks of love and faithfulness resulting in a non-eternal atoning for sin; in other words, a temporal atonement rather than an eternal one.(James Akin, Temporal and Eternal Salvation,(c)1996)

Synergy in Salvation:
Both Lutherans and Orthodox teach that divine grace operates universally and that God freely grants grace to all human beings. God's saving grace does not operate by necessity or in an irresistible manner, since human beings can reject it. Regarding the way in which salvation is appropriated by the believers, Lutherans, by teaching that justification and salvation are by grace alone through faith (sola gratia, sola fide), stress the absolute priority of divine grace in salvation. ...The Orthodox also affirm the absolute priority of divine grace. They underline that it is God's grace which enables our human will to conform to the divine will (Phil 2:13) in the steps of Jesus praying, "not as I will but as You will" (Matt. 26:39), so that we may work out our salvation in fear and trembling ( Phil. 2:12). This is what the Orthodox mean by "synergy" (working together) of divine grace and the human will of the believer in the appropriation of the divine life in Christ.
The understanding of synergy in salvation is helped by the fact that the human will in the one person of Christ was not abolished when the human nature was united in Him with the divine nature,... While Lutherans do not use the concept of synergy, they recognize the personal responsibility of the human being in the acceptance or refusal of divine grace through faith, and in the growth of faith and obedience to God. Lutherans and Orthodox both understand good works as the fruits and manifestations of the believer's faith and not as a means of salvation. (9th Plenary of the Lutheran-Orthodox Joint Commission)

Theological Anthropology in Dialogue:
Please watch Paul Hinlicky trying to uncover the salvation-history presuppositions of the Lutheran doctrine of justification and its implications, in dialogue with Orthodox understanding of the human vocation, "In a view in which the encounter with Christ and communion with him by the Spirit is the text, and justification by faith the commentary on it, however, there must be an answer to the question, What is the human person? The classical answer is, in words that are familiar from the Orthodox theological tradition: To be human is to become divine. To miss this calling is to fall short of humanity, as God wills humanity to be. Sin is a radical alienation from the human vocation, whose consequence is the equally radical fate of death. Apart from some such theological anthropology as this, justification by faith loses it claim to magnify the redemption in Christ and becomes mere anthropology; so reduced, it is, in fact, in danger of becoming an ideology of secularization with a happy consciousness. In order to avoid this ironical fate, Lutheran theology will have to recognize that its relation to Orthodox theology is one of an asymmetrical dependence on the classical tradition of the ancient and undivided church, of which living Orthodoxy claims to be the representative."

Salvation in Christ; A Lutheran-Orthodox Dialogue:
Many topics under the broad issue of 'salvation' are treated in this compilation of ecumenical studies, edited by John Meyendorff, and Robert Tobias, including useful comparative essays on the similarities and differences between Orthodox doctrine and those emerging from the Lutheran Reformation. Major in depth exploration of the central subject through scholarly papers by outstanding theologians of both churches, including John breck and Robert Wilken.
"The revelation of God, even as contained in Scripture, transcends all verbal expressions. It is hidden from all creatures, especially from sinful man (Greek: the 'old man'). Its true meaning is revealed only through the Holy Spirit in the living experience of salvation, which is accomplished in the church through the Christian life. This catholic experience of salvation in the church is at the same time the only authentic expression of the true understanding of the Word of God."

Comment & Book Review:
"It is arguable today that the historical-critical task of the convergence method in ecumenical studies is largely accomplished and that we are in a stage of reception, the results of which are not yet fully clear."
"The North American bilateral volume, Salvation in Christ: A Lutheran-Orthodox Dialogue, brims with new theological possibilities for the construction of an evangelical and orthodox theological witness in a post-Constantinian world." (Paul Hinlicky)

Edited by two respected theologians, this collection of essays examines Christ "for us" and "in us," representing two approaches to soteriology. Topics include: Anthropology in Christ, Orthodox Soteriology, Slavation as Justification and Theosis, Divine Initiative and the necessity of grace, Free will and original sin, free will and the two natures of Christ, the image of God in Lutheranism, Election from the Lutheran view, Election: the Biblical/Orthodox View and finally, predestination and divine foreknowledge.

This is a very handy book for serious ecumenists or Lutherans seeking to better understand their Eastern brothers in Christ (and vice versa).

I just received this book and haven't been able to put it down. The photographs are beautifully illustrated and the directions couldn't be more clear. Patterns are available for the beginner (like myself) and intermediate level. Also, the book has a spiral binding which allows it to stand making direction very easy to follow. I've already picked out a pattern, purchased the fabric and batting and am on my way.

I like quilting but am not all that good at it. This book is easy to follow and the photos beautiful. I like pastels so they are just perfect for me. My neighbor likes dark colors so I wonder if she would be crazy about it. No matter this is my review and I really like it.