Elise buying silk at the Minnesota Renaisance Fair
Quilted Life was founded in 2002 by Elise Schebler Roberts to share quilting and quilt history with others. A historian by training, a writer by avocation, and an artist by nature, Elise is a contributing author to Minnesota Quilts, and Around the Quilt Frame, both from Voyageur Press.
Elise has just completed her first major book for Voyageur Press,
The Quilt: A History and Celebration of an American Art Form. visit our Featured bookspage to learn more.
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For Quilters who Love Quilts...
Get your copy of "The Quilt: A History and Celebration of an American Art Form" This beutiful hard-cover book explores our quilting heritage with over 340 pages and more than 250 full color photos. This large size volume is a must-have for all serious quilters. You'll learn about quilters and quilts throughout America's history from its earliest origins. It shows how quilts from European, African-American, Native American, and other cultures influenced each other. But it's not a book full of dates and names, it's a treasury of quilter's stories, pieced together to form the whole picture.
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