Quilters Quotes:

Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

- Sandra Dallas

source: Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.17, Macmillan

topic: Perfect, Quilters

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

- Jennifer Chiaverini

source: Jennifer Chiaverini, Nancy Odom (2002). “Elm Creek Quilts: Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels”, p.9, C&T Publishing Inc

topic: Passion, Two, Stranger, Quilting, Quilters

Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.

- Jennifer Chiaverini

topic: Art, Quilts, Passion, Quilting, Quilters

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

- Rich Mullins

topic: Wise, Writing, Thinking, Quilters, Weavers

In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.

- Jennifer Chiaverini

topic: Art, Fun, Writing, Quilters

When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.

- Jennifer Chiaverini

topic: Writing, Use, Firsts, Quilters

Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and their generosity, their quarrels and their kindnesses - the lives of quilters became a natural subject for me. Quilting wove together my two themes as completely and effortlessly as I could have hoped.

- Jennifer Chiaverini

topic: Kindness, Writing, Two, Inside Jokes, Quilting

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

- Jennifer Chiaverini

source: Jennifer Chiaverini (2011). “The Quilter's Legacy: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

topic: Quilts, Book, People, Quilting, Quilters

Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.

- Kirby Larson

source: Hope Is the Word Interview, hopeisthewordblog.com. February 27, 2009.

topic: Husband, Yoga, Writing, Quilters