Quilting Is My Therapy - Behind the Stitches with Angela Walters [Paperback]

Walters is a professional quilter, and her name often appears in a nine-point cutline following quilted by in books authored by designers. Here, the print is bold, and the quilt designs are hers as well as others. Her story is delightful. She describes how she went from a quilt ignoramus to an expert at long-arm machine quilting. She begins with her husbands grandfather, Grandpa Ford, a quilter who helped her make her first quilt and praised her every effort along the way. She relates her mistakes and the fruits they bore. Her theme: Even a blind squirrel gets a nut sometimes. She annotates sample quilts, describing the stitcheswishbone, matchstick, ribbon candythat she applies as fillers and how she fills negative space by playing off the quilt design itself. Her bricks shore up Tula Pinks Gothic Arches. She admits that some of her best work springs from Pinks piecing, but her own quilts, such as Cream Wholecloth and the painted Legacy, inspire too. Her attitude mimics Grandpa Fords encouragement: I am not sharing my story to tell you how great I am; I am trying to show you how great you can be. Gorgeous full-page photos show off the texture and stitch of this intricate craft. Color photos.Angela Walters is renowned in the quilting world for her quilting and this book is a compilation of some of her favourite quilts that show the range of her designs. It takes us through Angela's quilting career, which she tells in a delightfully humorous and humble manner. Some of her favourite quilts are showcased, with plenty of close up photographs to really show off the quilting, and detailed explanations of the quilting process. She includes many of her own quilts, as well as customer quilts, including a number of Tula Pink's masterpieces. This book is an excellent showcase of Angela's work, and while there are no specific how-tos or guides (she has covered that in her numerous previous books), it is an inspiration for machine quilters everywhere. Just looklƒ,