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Une Abecedaire by Diane Halas Routt

Size: 13" x 23"
Retired university lecturer.
I found the Internet through my son and daughter-in-law, who told me about quilting newsgroups almost three years ago.

For my TNARQ? piece, I made a "book quilt" that describes two features of what Robert Louis Stevenson called The Land of Counterpane. I made a book quilt because conceptually and physically, all books are quilts, and all quilts are texts. Books have three parts--a beginning, a middle and an end--held together by a narrative or conceptual thread. Physically, the three parts of a book--front cover, pages, and back are sewn together. In addition, a child might find a book quilt very comforting to take to bed.