Sew - this morning as I was trying to think of something to post about I remembered these three books I got for Christmas.

Ah, yeh, I am obsessed enough to have a jar completely devoted to EPP parts. A small mason jar holds the hexies for current projects... these are the someday parts...

Back to the books...specifically the one on the bottom titled "American Quilts" which is a history of quilting from 1780 to 2007. She's a heavy book but that's just from the quantity of information she contains :)

My favorite photo so far is this one...

The man's name is Albert Small and he holds the world's record for the quilt with the most pieces. This book measures hexie sizes across the paper piece instead of along one side so it's a little hard to gauge the size of his hexies but I read that there were 15 hexies per square inch. And y'all thought *I* was insane!

Albert started quilting after teasing his wife on the amount of time she spent quilting. In order to make his world's record quilt he spent 4 hours a day (after his full time dynamite job at a quarry) 6 days a week for 3 or 4 years! I think I also read that he "only" finished 3 quilts. Of course this was in addition to all his other hobbies. I would love to find a better copy of the above photo to recplicate some of the designs but everything I can find online has very small scale photos. I'll just have to wing it and design my own quilt.

Feel free to Google Albert as there are some pictures of his quilts online...