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Packed with hundreds of solutions to every quilting quandary, the newest Storey Answer Book is the helping hand quilters have been waiting for. The questions quilters ask and the no-nonsense answers they need are enhanced by detailed illustrations and gathered into the friendly Q & A format that is the signature of the best-selling series.

Sure to earn a place of honor next to every quilter’s sewing machine, The Quilting Answer Book is the 24/7 helpline that’s always ready with clear instructions to describe an unfamiliar technique or an elegant solution to a nagging problem.

When an aspiring quilter wonders which tools are absolutely necessary for making even the simplest of quilts, she will find the answer here. If a seasoned stitcher is itching to learn a new patchwork skill, the how-to in these pages will not disappoint. The quickest, easiest way to appliqué? The best materials for batting and backing? The perfect place to use French binding? Quilters need look no further for helpful tips and hints that will put their projects over the top.

Finished quilts are works of art. Made as gifts for life’s special occasions, they often become beloved keepsakes. With the proven solutions in The Quilting Answer Book, every quilt can become the treasured heirloom its maker imagines.

Barbara Weiland Talbert is a noted quilting and sewing author, columnist, editor, and designer whose writing has been featured in publications including Sew News and Sewing Savvy. She has extensive experience teaching sewing seminars and solving the problems of stitchers of all levels. Visit her at www.joyofsewing.com

Today it’s called ‘In Search of Lost Time’. Early in the last century it was ‘Remembrance of Things Past’. Under whatever title, and whichever translator, Proust’s gargantuan novel has baffled American readers for more than eighty years. Over the course of a year, Daniel Ford tackled the recent and lovely Penguin/Viking editions, blogging on the internet as he read. He devotes a short chapter to each of the novel’s seven books, introducing it with a two-minute plot synoposis–thus the fourteen minutes of the title. More than that, he ruminates on one or more of its highlights, compares the Penguin/Viking translations with the classic ones based on the work of C. K. Scott Moncrieff, and–gotcha!–points to errors in the text or translation. About 7,500 words.