Quilters, and computer users, don't live by fabric and pixels alone. Sometimes we resort to that most old-fashioned of virtual realities, the simple, portable book or magazine.

Planet Patchwork offers the web's largest selection of original quilt book reviews, some aimed specifically at computing quilters, others aimed at more general quilting, computing and human issues.

Be sure to visit the Planet Patchwork bookstore!

Also, Come See! Planet Patchwork United Kingdom Quilters' Bookstore.. If you live in the U.K. and are tired of paying high shipping on quilt books from the U.S., visit our new U.K. Quilters' Bookstore. Discounts, quick local delivery, and lots of choices.   

• Visual Coloring by Joen Wolfrom
  The new technique described in this book will make a self-confident color maven out of any tentative quilter if she follows a few simple steps. Five complete quilt projects are a great bonus as well.

• Book and Software Review: Karen K. Stone Quilts
  A new book and CD from Electric Quilt showcase the wonderful quilts of Karen Stone. Find out why her quilts have such enormous appeal.
   
• Book Review: The Photo Quilter's Bible
  If you've been meaning to put photos in your quilts, but it all looked like too much mess and bother, this is the book to give you the inspiration (and the instructions!)
   
• Confetti and Triangles: Two New Book Reviews from Addy Harkavy. Addy looks at new books from Mary Mashuta and Sally Schneider. These two ground-breaking volumes may change your attitudes toward color and shape in your quilts!

• Planet Patchwork Bookbriefs #20. Twenty new quilting books reviewed. Alex Anderson, Thimbleberries, Sandy Bonsib, Fabric Dyeing, Summertime quilts, Christmas quilts, school quilts, and more!

• Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts
  This volume celebrates the poignant, original art of a community of black quilters in rural Alabama. Your concept of quilting will never be the same again. 

• Book Review: Quilt-in-a-Day Underground Railroad Quilt. Reviewed by Addy Harkavy. This new volume by Eleanor Burns has some problematical history. (Posted May 31, 2003)

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #19, by Rob and Lynn Holland. Quilted manhole covers lead off this selection of nine new quilt books. Judy Murrah, Alex Anderson, fun with flannel and paper piecing! (Posted January 11, 2003)

• Does Quilting Make You Hurt? Find out how to relieve those aches and pains, or better still, prevent them in the first place. Pain-Free Quilting by Carole Leroy tells you how while it makes you laugh! Reviewed by Lynn Holland. (Posted January 10, 2003)

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #18, by Rob and Lynn Holland. Visit the magical worlds of Laurel Burch and Yvonne Porcella, do a Christmas project, or foundation piece your borders with these nine new books. (Posted November 27, 2002)

• Seven New Books, reviewed by Rob and Lynn Holland. Eat and sew in Provence, quilt with children in Finland, visit secret gardens and more in these great new quilt books. (Posted July 6, 2002)

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #16, by Rob and Lynn Holland. North woods quilts, scrap frenzy, and more Stack-n-Whack!

• Two books on African American Quilts. Spirits of the Cloth and Hidden in Plain View.

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #15. From Patchwork Picnic to paper-piecing your garden! by Lynn Holland

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #14. Seven great new titles for quilters. Digital Decorating to Painted Chairs! by Lynn Holland.

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #13.  Four new books for creative quilters.

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #12.  Five Paper Piecing Books Reviewed by Lynn Holland!

• Quilt Studio: Innovative Techniques for Confident and Creative Quiltmaking and Design, by Pauline Burbidge. Reviewed by Celia Eddy.

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #11.  Chocolate, Teddy Bears, Pink Lemonade and more!

• Picture Play Quilts, by Ami Simms

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #10. Reviews of 7 new books by Christina Holland. Celtic, Stars, Paper-piecing, Appliqued Flowers and more!

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #9. Reviews of 10 wonderful new books, including Peaky and Spike!

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs #8. The entire series of "Basic Quiltmaking Techniques" books from That Patchwork Place. Reviewed by Christina Holland.

• Free Stuff for Quilters, Stitchers, Sewing Fanatics and Crafty Kids. Review of Judy Heim and Gloria Hansen's great series of internet guides for textile and craft freaks!

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs, #7, Four Books reviewed by Lynn Holland.  Color, color, and more color! 

• Quilters' Travel Companion, Reviewed by Lynn Holland

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs, #6, Eight books reviewed by Christina Holland. Nursery rhymes, miniatures, rotary cutting, quilting patterns.

• Designing Tessellations, by Jinny Beyer. Reviewed by Addy Harkavy.

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs, #5. Quilters' gardens, photo-transfer, and more!

• Riva: The Dilbert of Quilting.

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs, #4. Reviews of seven new quilting books, by Christina Holland. Also links for our visitors from the U.K.

• Ribbonry, beginning quilting, and Free Stuff! Several new books on ribbonry, Carol Doak's "Your First Quilting Book," and Judy Heim and Gloria Hansen's new "Free Stuff for Quilters on the Internet."

• Two paper-piecing books by Carol Doak

• Planet Patchwork Quilting Bookbriefs, #3: Reviews of Magic Stack-n-Whack Quilts, Hand-Stitched Samplers from I Done My Best, On the Surface, Machine Quilting with Decorative Threads, and Quilted for Christmas.

• Five More Mini-Reviews: The Ultimate Book of Quilt Labels, Wildflowers, Stars in the Garden, Crazy With Cotton, Easy Paper-Pieced Miniatures

• Playing With Fabric: Two books and a pattern, reviewed by Addy Harkavy.

• Five Mini-Reviews: Say It With Quilts, Patchwork Persuasion, Tradition With a Twist, Color: The Quilters Guide, Six-Color World

• Optical Illusions for Quilters, by Karen Combs

• Two Books On Historical American Quilts, reviewed by Addy Harkavy.

• The Quilter's Computer Companion, by Judy Heim and Gloria Hansen

• Worlds of Whimsy: Four New Books on Folkart Quilting

• Now reissued by That Patchwork Place! Strips that Sizzle, by Margaret Miller

• Fiber to Fabric and Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair

• Simply Stars and Kaleidoscopes and Quilts

• Three Books on Japanese Quilting

• A Survey on Paper Piecing

• A Communion of Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and their Stories, by Roland L. Freeman

• Pieces of an American Quilt

• Art & Inspirations: Ruth B. McDowell.

• Classic Quilts With Precise Foundation Piecing, By Tricia Lund & Judy Pollard.

• Mariner's Compass Quilts, New Directions, By Judy Mathieson.

• The Needlecrafter's Computer Companion, By Judy Heim

• Press for Success, by Myrna Giesbrecht

• Two Books on Mola Techniques