Awhile back, Kathie (the other Kathie :-)) posted about her newest historical quilt book, The Hands That Made Them: the Quilts of Adams County, Pennsylvania.
This piqued my interest right away, as I have family ties to that area. My mother's father was born in Adams County, PA in 1874 and grew up outside Gettysburg, in a tiny town called Fairfield.
When you have family from near Gettysburg, PA, the Civil War and its battles are not simply dry textbook facts. I had ancestors living there experiencing the battle of Gettysburg and all its attending terrors. It's always seemed very real to me.
My Adams County grandfather died young and very tragically nearly 100 years ago. One of the few concrete things of him that remains is his autograph book, which he received on his 14th birthday.
Most of the autographs in the book are from the 1880s. None of the quilters in the book appear in the autograph album, but people in their families do.
One of these days I need to get the autograph album pages scanned and sent off to a historical society in that area...
ANYWAY. I obtained the Adams County book through Interlibrary Loan.
It's fabulous, so full antique quilt-y goodness and inspiration. I just hate the thought of returning it (and that due date is coming up real soon), but plan to photocopy several quilts to file away for future reference. Like many of these historic quilt books (which seem to disappear from print almost as soon as they hit bookstores), this one has ideas and inspiration to last a lifetime for those of us interested in antique quilts.
It's all the more inspiring because the names of many of the makers are familiar to me, like old neighbors.
If anyone has a copy of that book to sell, I'm definitely interested...
7 comments:
Would you be willing to share the ISBN number from the book? I'd like to search for it through my library system also! Thank you!
keep checking amazon you may get lucky and find a book reasonably priced
Kathie
right now the lowest amazon price is $75. eeek, library is a much better option. so cool to look at quilts and see family connections.
You know you can put up and max price on amazon and get notice if a book turns up at that price?
I think the prices of some of these out of print books are ridiculous, especially used but I suppose it's supply and demand. I hope you find one.
Autograph books are great! There used to be books at the library about sayings you could add with your autograph - they don't have those anymore.
That book looks amazing - I especially like that spider web quilt.
Have you tried E-Bay, or some of the other secondhand books sites.
It sounds to me as if it's another LQ and I'm so sorry I can't help you out.
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