Award-winning quilter, designer, author and teacher Anita Grossman Solomon is devoted to making quilting faster and easier. Her Almost to California quilt pattern appears in the September/October 2004 (#99) issue of Quiltmaker magazine.
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Excerpts from the Experts
Interview with Anita Grossman Solomon
What did you enjoy most about doing the book with C&T?
Their enthusiasm and emphasis on collaboration. They incorporated my design concepts into the book that, had it been authored by someone else, would have looked quite different. They understood what I was about within the first five minutes of our acquaintance. They just "get it" and everyone in the company has an interest in the books and the authors.
What did you find most challenging?
Finding the time to devote to the project. Making a book, I imagine, must be like giving birth. The pain dulls and if you're lucky, you get to do it again. I'm expecting my second book from C&T, Perfect Blocks in Minutes the Make It Simpler Way, in November.
If you could offer one piece of advice for quiltmakers today, what would it be?
This may seem like heresy but here goes. If you're working on a project and you want to put it aside, permanently, do so. If you aren't enjoying it, if you are dissatisfied with, if you've fallen out of love with it, stop and move on. It's been a learning experience. Some things aren't destined to be a finished quilt. I look through my odds 'n ends that are frozen in time and know they contributed to my development as a quilter. I don't advocate being wasteful but no matter how dear fabric is, your time and happiness is even more precious.
---Anita
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