Minnesota Quilts: Creating Connections with Our Past

by Jean Loken, Laura Jelinek, Elise Roberts

Minnesota Quilts: Creating Connections with Our Past is a unique treasury of exceptional quilts, fascinating quilters, and their stories from the Minnesota Quilt Project, whose members traveled the state for nearly twenty years, photographing and documenting quilts and interviewing quiltmakers. The result is a collection as varied and expressive as the makers themselves. From early pioneer days to the 1970s, these quilts, showcased in glorious full-color photographs, span a significant era of Minnesota and reflect our distinctive heritage. Whether you’re a quilter or someone who has a love of quilts and their history, this collection of Minnesota’s extraordinary patchworks will help you create connections with your past.

Genres: Quilting

192 pages, Hardcover

First published May 30, 2005

Reviews

[Jean Carlton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Being one of the authors of this book makes it somewhat difficult to review objectively! As I continue in my efforts to read each and every book devoted to the documentation of quilts in 40+ states published to date, I am able to observe differences in the documentation methods, the style and range of quilts included and the approach chosen to tell the related stories. The Minnesota book, though not among the most scholarly publications,does a thorough job of living up to it's title. Chapters written by eight different authors illuminate for the reader how these common textiles are connected to our state history as well as economics, fads, family, community and traditions. I did note more than the typical number of typos and feel the editing could have been more concise.

[Katie Pierson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful writing and research, gorgeous photography of an underappreciated art form.