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The quilting bee

An introduction to the process of quilt making, including a history of the craft, sample quilt patterns, and directions for creating a children's book authors and illustrators quilt.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gibbons, Gail
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2004.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Patchwork > Patterns > Juvenile nonfiction. Patchwork quilts > History > Juvenile nonfiction. Quilting > Societies, etc. > Juvenile nonfiction. Handicraft > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	An introduction to the process of quilt making, including a history of the craft, sample quilt patterns, and directions for creating a children's book authors and illustrators quilt.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	0688163971 068816398X (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:	Gail Gibbons was born in 1944 in Oak Park, Illinois. She received a degree in graphic design from the University of Illinois. She got a job doing artwork for television shows in New York City. She was eventually offered a job creating art for a children's show, where some of the children asked her if she had ever considered doing a children's books. Her first book, Willy and His Wheel Wagon, was published in 1975. Since then she has written and illustrated more than 170 non-fiction books for children including Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests. (Bowker Author Biography)