Amy Butler's Midwest Modern: A Fresh Design Spirit for the Modern Lifestyle
Amy Butler
2007
Modern & Design-ForwardAmy Butler's breakout collection of bold, large-scale florals and graphic quilt and home-décor projects that helped define early-2000s modern quilting.
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Why Teresa recommends it
“This book is where a lot of us first saw quilting fabric that looked nothing like our grandmothers' calicos — big florals, saturated color, real design confidence. It changed what a lot of quilters thought fabric was allowed to look like.”
— Teresa Drummond, NiftyFifty founder
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