1.6 Million African American Quilters: Survey, Sites, and a Half-Dozen Art Quilt Blocks (Paperback)

from WordMaven

In a word: WOW. Kudos to Ms. Hicks for doing some serious homework to put this book together. It is a marvel of numbers and stats, but she presents it so that you care about those numbers and what they mean. Not only that, I checked the URLs she provided, and they are live links. I wasn't directe...

from feministmama

Yay! Finally a crafting book that is all about us. I;m a knitter and newbie quilter and I get so discouraged sometimes only seeing white faces in these books. Thank you Kyra Hicks. What a wonderful little book. A great reference that I can share with my mother who is the real quilter of the family .

from elwood_mom

Excellent reference book! It's not a history of African-American quilting, but rather a compilation of blogs, websites, quilting groups... almost more information than you could ever want shoe-horned into a mere 60 pages. It's an incredible labor of love that would be a valuable bookshelf additio...

from Auj

I am a quilter and was excited to learn that I had snagged a book on quilting. However, this is not a book about quilting. It is a documentation of African American quilters and quilting. Ms. Hicks has compiled a lot of research into this small book of less than 60 pages. The statistics of how ma...

from shearon

This is an interesting little catalog of statistics about African American quilters and sources of information including websites, quilt guilds, books, films and academic publications. Some of the statistics are pure arithmetic, for example, taking the total number of black Americans, 39 million ...