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The New American Quilt: An Innovation in Contemporary Quilt Design
The New American Quilt An Innovation in Contemporary Quilt Design Author:Margit Echols Margit Echols was working with the Lower East Harlem Community Quilters as teacher and designer when she first saw the enjoyment and satisfaction her students were getting from making quilt designs based on places and objects from their own environment. Traditionally quilt patterns were a direct outgrowth of the community or personal experience ... more »of the quilters, and they became treasured possessions, often handed down from generation to generation. In The New American Quilt, Margit Echols goes back to this principle of quilting, showing how the modern quilter can design and draw the patterns for a quilt to reflect personal experience, taste and environment, whether urban or rural, sophisticated or simple, or to commemorate an important private or community event.« less