Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-061591
Reviews
"Berlo's writing captures the intensity of the physical and emotional dimensions of the creative impulse.Only someone able to step back and observe herself in the midst of confusion could have given us this very personal, often insightful narrative."-Great Plains Quarterly, "Berlo relates the conflict and pressures of integrating past and present, career and personal life, life goals and daily chores. Her needle-sharp prose seamlessly integrates quilting history, techniques, bits of poetry, and recipes. Her humor is equally sharp."- Piecework, "This intriguing and unusual memoir deals with an 18-month period in the mid-1990s when Berlo, a professor of art history and of gender and women''s studies at the University of Rochester, was afflicted by writer''s block. A successful academic author . . . Berlo abandoned a book she had nearly completed and began devoting a major portion of her time to quilt making. . . . Berlo''s vivid account of historical quilting as well as descriptions of her own projects are so compelling, readers may be inspired to try quilting themselves. . . . Most of all, Berlo credits the art of quilt making with teaching her to take joy in the process rather than the finished product and to accept messiness and patience as valuable parts of creativity."Publishers Weekly, "Berlo relates the conflict and pressures of integrating past and present, career and personal life, life goals and daily chores. Her needle-sharp prose seamlessly integrates quilting history, techniques, bits of poetry, and recipes. Her humor is equally sharp."-Piecework, "Berlo's writing captures the intensity of the physical and emotional dimensions of the creative impulse . . . Only someone able to step back and observe herself in the midst of confusion could have given us this very personal, often insightful narrative."Great Plains Quarterly, "This intriguing and unusual memoir deals with an 18-month period in the mid-1990s when Berlo, a professor of art history and of gender and women''s studies at the University of Rochester, was afflicted by writer''s block. A successful academic author . . . Berlo abandoned a book she had nearly completed and began devoting a major portion of her time to quilt making. . . . Berlo''s vivid account of historical quilting as well as descriptions of her own projects are so compelling, readers may be inspired to try quilting themselves. . . . Most of all, Berlo credits the art of quilt making with teaching her to take joy in the process rather than the finished product and to accept messiness and patience as valuable parts of creativity."-Publishers Weekly, "Berlo's writing captures the intensity of the physical and emotional dimensions of the creative impulse . . . Only someone able to step back and observe herself in the midst of confusion could have given us this very personal, often insightful narrative."- Great Plains Quarterly, "Berlo relates the conflict and pressures of integrating past and present, career and personal life, life goals and daily chores. Her needle-sharp prose seamlessly integrates quilting history, techniques, bits of poetry, and recipes. Her humor is equally sharp."Piecework, "Berlo's writing captures the intensity of the physical and emotional dimensions of the creative impulse…Only someone able to step back and observe herself in the midst of confusion could have given us this very personal, often insightful narrative."-Great Plains Quarterly, "This intriguing and unusual memoir deals with an 18-month period in the mid-1990s when Berlo, a professor of art history and of gender and women's studies at the University of Rochester, was afflicted by writer's block. A successful academic author . . . Berlo abandoned a book she had nearly completed and began devoting a major portion of her time to quilt making. . . . Berlo's vivid account of historical quilting as well as descriptions of her own projects are so compelling, readers may be inspired to try quilting themselves. . . . Most of all, Berlo credits the art of quilt making with teaching her to take joy in the process rather than the finished product and to accept messiness and patience as valuable parts of creativity."- Publishers Weekly, "This intriguing and unusual memoir deals with an 18-month period in the mid-1990s when Berlo, a professor of art history and of gender and women''s studies at the University of Rochester, was afflicted by writer''s block. A successful academic author . . . Berlo abandoned a book she had nearly completed and began devoting a major portion of her time to quilt making. . . . Berlo''s vivid account of historical quilting as well as descriptions of her own projects are so compelling, readers may be inspired to try quilting themselves. . . . Most of all, Berlo credits the art of quilt making with teaching her to take joy in the process rather than the finished product and to accept messiness and patience as valuable parts of creativity."- Publishers Weekly, "Berlo relates the conflict and pressures of integrating past and present, career and personal life, life goals and daily chores. Her needle-sharp prose seamlessly integrates quilting history, techniques, bits of poetry, and recipes. Her humor is equally sharp."-Piecework.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
746.46/092 B
Table Of Content
Contents:AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Piecing for CoverLossUnfinished BusinessWriter's BlockIn My Sisters' StudiosTall Girls' TalesThe Family Scrap BagNavajo Star MapKevin Eckstrom's Chocolate-Raspberry QuiltSimultaneityCanyon de ChellySmashing the Dresden PlatesThe Sisters' QuiltDelectable MountainsPansies for My Mother, 1(Black) Pansies for My Mother, 2Parsimony and ExtravaganceThe Strip QuiltPatchwork Pictures of BernieCrazy Ladies and Their FriendsBack to Unfinished BusinessWorking My StintHard at PlayAn Amish Nine-PatchDog PatchRobbing Peter to Pay PaulDreaming of Double WomanSister's ChoiceSedna, SquaredWhat I'm Longing ForPostscript; Notes; About the Author
Synopsis
A supportive, self-help manual on breast cancer. This book provides important information on detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Fears, truths, remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and experts. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress, recovery, and death are discussed frankly and openly. The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those with serious illness, and a patient's bill of rights. This book is a helpful guide to detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Pederson and Trigg have drawn on their own experiences with cancer patients to provide frank discussions of the physiological and psychological aspects of breast cancer. Fears, truths, remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from the perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and friends. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress, recovery, and death are discussed in language accessible to the general reader. The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggested reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those with serious illness, and a patient's bill of rights., In the middle of a successful academic career, art historian Janet Catherine Berlo found herself literally at a loss for words. A severe case of writer's block forced her to abandon a book manuscript midstream; she found herself quilting instead. Scorning the logic, planning, and order of scholarship and writing, she immersed herself in freewheeling patterns and vivid colors. For eighteen months she spent all day, every day, quilting. This book penetrates to the very heart of women's lives, focusing on their relationships to family and friends, to work, to daily tasks. It is a search for meaning at midlife, a search for an integration of career and creativity.
LC Classification Number
NK9198.B47A2 2001
