"An important chronicle of women's literary achievements and history." -- United Methodist Reporter
"An innovative approach to writing the history of women.... Like the role of women in history, instead of serving as a tool, these hand-made symbols of strength and endurance provide a physical history that cannot be duplicated." -- Northwest Ohio Quarterly
"Anyone who loves quilts will want to add Quilt Stories to their library. But, anyone who loves stories about reinforcing family ties and commemorating events will want to have it, too." -- Tennessee Star-Journal
"As a literary tradition, the art of quilting seems to have touched the lives of women of all generations, races, and economic classes. Just how diverse this effect has been over the past century is shown to beautiful effect in this memorable anthology." -- Pegram (TN) Advocate
"Each writing shares a glimpse of what quilting means to those people who practice the art and how it helps us to see, remember, learn, know and express our feelings." -- Quilt World
"Macheski has pieced together a variety of literary fabrics into a unique design which represents women's struggle for identity in a masculine world." -- Benton, Arkansas Courier
"One giant treat, covering as it does writers from many different times and genres fashioned into a grand design." -- Rockland (ME) Courier-Gazette
"Quilt Stories will bring pleasure to your day." -- Chattanooga Times
"Representing over 150 years of fiction and poetry, Quilt Stories brings together a conscious and continuous women's literary tradition in America." -- McCormick (SC) Messenger
"The collection is a pleasure to read while it piles up examples of creating beauty from scraps, emphasizing the symbol's significance." -- Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas
"The quilt is often much more than something to keep on the bed. There are quilts that tell stories, commemorate events and reinforce family ties. Not only is Quilt Stories a delightful collection of tales and poetry, but it gives us an intimate look at women's lives over the past century." -- Come-All-Ye
"The 28 works included in Quilt Stories restore to women a part of their history and their sense of community, an important service in a present time in which quilting has perhaps become a more private and individual art, though it still serves widely as a medium for social exchange and cooperative endeavor." -- Appalachian Quarterly
"This collection of literary treasures forms a 'quilt of words, ' as Macheski herself suggests in the insightful introduction." -- Journal of the Jackson Purchase Society
