Books
At AQS Books, we strive to always bring the highest quality books directly to the quilters who love them. With topics ranging from traditional to extraordinary, every quilter is sure to find something they’ll love. Plus, with more than 20 new American Quilter’s Society books published every year, there’s always a new way to feed your love of quilts.
In addition to finding all of our books in our own AQS Store, you’ve surely seen them at your local quilt shop, bookstore, and many local libraries. We’re a leading producer of quilt books, with new titles distributed across the world.
Most of our books are available as e-books. You can even access many of our out-of-print books this way. More than three dozen books are already digitized and ready for immediate purchase and download. And we’re releasing new titles every month electronically.
You can shop our store and purchase any AQS book today. You’ll also find other wonderful quilting products.
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Plus, AQS Members receive discounts on all AQS Books. Every member saves 20%. Members who purchase 6 or more save 30%!
More AQS Book Features
- Congratulations Sally Terry - HMQS Teacher of the Year!
We're so glad Sally is part of the American Quilter's Society! You can benefit from Sally's teaching experience via any of the books she's published with AQS: Pathways to Better Quilting: 5 Shapes for Machine Quilt Patterns (#6509) Hooked on F...
- Free- Log Cabin Library Pattern by Karen Griska
This Log Cabin-style selvage quilt from Karen Griska features the classic red center squares representing the cabin's hearth. The selvages are arranged like bookshelves surrounding the hearth. When the blocks are assembled they create a delightful wove...
- Guide to Machine Quilting by Diane Gaudynski
Award-winning tips and techniques perfect for every skill level of machine quilters. This guide to machine quilting by Diane Gaudynski features: A machine quilting overview: start off right with easy to follow directions and helpful step-by-step...
- Diane Gaudynski's Quilt of the Week - Video
Diane Gaudynski's beautiful Quilt of the Week has a very serious theme. It is named "Through a Glass Darkly, An American Memory." The quilt started as a study in the subtle variations of deep colors. After September 11, Diane changed the color ...
- eBook - Quilts from the Selvage Edge by Karen Griska
"Cut off the selvages." That's often the first thing new quilters learn about fabric in beginning classes. But what do you do with them? Throw them away? Never again! Not after you see the vivid and ingenious creations they can become. Here are quilt...
- 2012 Catalogue of Show Quilts 28th Annual Paducah Quilt Show & Contest
Celebrate the talent, creativity, and workmanship of today's quilters! All the semi-finalists' quilts from the Paducah Quilt Show & Contest are featured in the 2012 Catalogue of Show Quilts. There are 377 quilts pictured representing 45 states and...
- Kimberly Einmo -- Jelly Roll Quilt Magic
Kimberly Einmo tells us about her AQS book Jelly Roll Quilt Magic. Click to order Jelly Roll Quilt Magic Click to order Jelly Roll Quilts & More Click to order Quilt a Travel Souvenir About Kimberly Einmo ...
- Folded Fabric Elegance by Rami Kim
Add dynamic texture & dimension to your project with Rami's prizewinning techniques in Folded Fabric Elegance. Learn traditional Korean folding methods, American smocking, harlequin tucks, pinwheels, and so much more. Simply follow the la...
- Free Prairie Point Blossom Pattern by Rami Kim
This pretty wallhanging is from the pattern Morning Glistens by Rami Kim. It features sets of mirror-imaged, beaded, continuous prairie points that are used to create flower blossom bundles and border embellishments. You'll have fun and learn how t...
- New - Easy Grid Quilts by Karen Fisher
Combine scale, color, and contrast to make award-winning quilts! Easy Grid Quilts by Karen G. Fisher will help you express your love of fabric by using grids. Karen presents 14 modern, sophisticated quilt projects based on five basic grid concepts. Sh...
- Let's Have the E-Book Discussion
Is it normal to have relationships with your books? Is there a phobia that causes a person not to be able to sleep without a stack of books on the bedside table? Is it wrong to lovingly caress the spines and to fondle the pages of your favorite books...
- Meet Karen G. Fisher Author of Easy Grid Quilts
Karen Fisher is an award-winning quilter and a new AQS author. Her first book with AQS is called Easy Grid Quilts. Let Karen introduce herself! "I came to quilting as an art form just a few years ago, but I had a lifetime of art-making and...
- Find a Local Quilt Shop
Do you remember when you discovered your first quilt shop? Wasn't it like walking into Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, only better? Remember exploring bolts of fabrics, quilting books, hoops, notions, patterns, and quilting magazines for the first...
- Favorite Appliqué & Embroidery Quilts by Betty Alderman
Quilters kept asking Betty Alderman for more modern patterns, especially flowers, with large pieces that were easy to see and handle. Since Betty's love of flowers equals her love of appliqué, she joyously tackled the challenge. The result is n...
- Free - Catnip Tea Party Quilt Pattern by Betty Alderman
This adorable wall quilt pattern by Betty Alderman features a delightful tea party complete with a kitty. The borders are made from simple Nine-Patch blocks that give them a scrappy, postage-stamp look when placed side-by-side. Use embroidery for the...
