About - Quiltmaking

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For 30 years (yes, I've been lurking for a long time!), Eleanor Levie has worked as a needlework and crafts editor, author, and book producer, with quilting as a specialty. Formerly a very scrawny tyke who grew up in Baltimore, she's extremely proud of her latest book, Skinny Quilts & Table Runners, featuring the signature styles of 15 of today's top quilt designers. She produced eight volumes of the Rodale’s Successful Quilting Library series, authored Great Little Quilts, Country Living's Country Quilts, and American Quiltmaking: 1970-2000, a history of quiltmaking in our time. She was the editor of Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Bowls, and two new books: The Quilter's Catalog, by Meg Cox, and Accidental Landscapes, by Karen Eckmeier--among many other books and magazines.

Elly is also a quilter---one who has had many chances to learn from the experts while she edits their books and chapters! Although she loves to design and fuse and free-motion quilt, she much prefers to direct the public's attention to great quilters and quilts, both yesteryear’s classics and today’s treasures. Elly has a passion for inspiring new and experienced quilters to try new techniques, and to appreciate quilts as art and as craft.

Home is Bucks County, PA, where she lives with her husband and their cockatiel, Spike, whose wolf whistles keep morale high. Son Sam is away at college, where he proudly displays the small art quilt Mom made for him, “Galactic Donut Holes.”