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Smiles and Tears.  Free form piecing with bias strips, tucked top and bottom border; beads, cotton fabric, machine embroidery, hand and machine quilted.  2002
Reference and Inspiration
BOOKS:
This is a page about reference and inspiration. 

Some of the books are about quilting.  All of the books are about inspiration.

I hope they bring you as much pleasure as they have me.

Enjoy
Cathleen
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Written by Herself, Harriet A. Jacobs

Harvard University Press, 1987

Stitched From the Soul
Fry, Dutton Studio Books, 1990

Women Who Run With the Wolves
Estes, Ballantine Books, 1992

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Hopkinson, Knopf, 1993

A Communion of the Spirits
Freeman, Rutledge Hill Press, 1996

America's Glorious Quilts
Duke and Harding, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1987

Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Washington, Vintage Books, 1993

The Block: Collage by Romare Bearden, Poems by Langston Hughes
Sims and Voigt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Viking, 1995
Spirits of the Cloth
Mazloomi, Clarkson Potter, 1998

The Art of Whitfield Lovell; Whispers from the Walls
Block, University of North Texas Press, 1999

With Sacred Threads
Towner-Larsen & Brewer-Davis
United Church Press, 2000

The Face of Our Past
Thompson & Mac Austin,
Indianna University Press, 1999

The Stitches of Creative Embroidery
Enthoven, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1964

Denmark Vesey
Robertson, Vintage Books, 1999

The Artist's Way; A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Cameron, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992
Courtesy K.E. Gregory, San Diego, California