I love scrap quilts and this is my favorite book about them. In fact my copy is very well read and I love to look at the color photos.

Judy Martin covers a wide variety of patterns (traditional to contemporary) and color schemes. There are quilts with just two colors as well as some that use every color on the color wheel. Some quilts are shown in different combinations or sizes.

There is an introduction to scrap quilts and sections about fabric collecting and storing, color choices and the appropriate use of scraps as well as some hints on sewing and cutting efficently. The instructions are well illustrated and easy to view. At the end there is a section of more block patterns that could be made with scraps including some ideas on how to place scraps with each block and the necessary templates for these blocks.

Judy Martin's "Scrap Quilts" is a great book with superb pictures and extremely well-written directions for a number of beautiful quilts. The quilts include some traditional ones as well as new and innovative ones.

Don't judge a book by it's cover doesn't apply in this case because not only is the cover of West Wind Review a work of art, but so it the writing. I love the prose poems/sudden fictions in this book. Please keep up the good work.

Not a dull page in the entire anthology. My only regret is that is could include a few more writers.

I recommend this anthology to anyone wanting a break from trendy genre novels, boring non-fiction, me-me-me poetry and nonsensical language poetry. Writers in West Wind Review are superb at mixing humor with pathos on their quests to find the meaning of life. You know how most writers seem to be trying too hard and sound fake deep? Not this group. Check it out.

An odd thing happened while reading this book: my respect for Loretta Young the businesswoman, Catholic values standard-bearer, responsible citizen and dignified person increased. Long before I reached mid-point of the book, I felt sad for her daughter -not because she couldn't crow about being related to "The King of Hollywood" earlier in her life- but because she seems to have so little insight, depth of understanding or charitable comprehension of her own shortcomings as well as those of the truly extraordinary (by her own account) family into which she was born. If Judy Lewis was a victim, it was of therapists who evidentally supported her in her sense of being "cheated" and who encouraged her to "claim her identity"; they forgot to tell her how sad, immature and hollow her "dream" of public recognition was and neglected to point out what a treasure she had already that needed cherishing: that complicated and magnificent woman who called her "my daughter".

There are scenes in this book that are poignant and affecting yet the player in them who is cruel isn't Loretta Young. I'm thinking of the night in 1966 when Judy learned the full story from a mother who -even while being hounded- asked first how Judy would feel if it were all true. Or the Mother's Day 1986 when Judy saw how distressed her mother was by the ongoing threat of hers to write an expose based on that intimate conversation of 28 years before.
In a book called "Forever Young" published after Loretta Young's death in 2000, the author points out that it was Loretta who reached out to Judy to heal the wound caused to them and their family by "Uncommon Knowledge". But then, based on Judy's own accounting, perceptive readers could have anticipated that.
What a shame this book is for all concerned.

Over the last few decades of the 20th century, several children of the Kings and Queens of Hollywood have stepped forward and write stories of what it was truly like to grow up under a famous shadow. Some have revealed horror stories of horrid abuse, neglect and alienation.

A person could be tempted to lump "Uncommon Knowledge" with the rest. But that would be doing Judy Lewis and her story a grave injustice. Unlike other Hollywood children, Judy Lewis entered the world in shadow circumstances that are still debated to this day.

In 1935, a blue eyed, blonde baby girl was born to Gretchen Young and her married former lover. Gretchen was better known to the world as the film star Loretta Young and her former lover was the smoldering Clark Gable. Compelled to save her career and image at any cost and her strong Catholic faith barring abortion, the young mother chose to hide her pregnancy and child from the world.

Judy Lewis was the baby girl. To the world, she was the adopted daughter and beloved daughter of Loretta Young. To the film world, she was Gable and Young's secret love child, the truth of her heritage stamped on her face. Lewis herself never knew the truth until adulthood.

Written without the consent of her mother, Judy Lewis builds a strong case for her story. The photos scattered throughout the text show a young woman to an adult, her resemblance to Clark Gable radiating in every pore. Other photos reveal her close resemblance to the Young family.

Like many other Hollywood children, Lewis was subjected to more nannies than time with her mother. And the complete silence from Young in regards to Judy's "adoption" and who she "truly" was left a heartwrenching void in Judy's life, one that even years of working as a family counseler can not erase.

Judy Lewis is a tower of strength. She was treated, in my opinion, like a second-class citizen in her own home by her own mother,stepfather and half-brothers.

She should have been treated like a queen. She was the daughter of Clark Gable and this information was cruelly hidden from her. Instead, she was treated like an "intruder" and was "not one of us" according to her stepfather. Judy's "staged" adoption by her real mother, Loretta Young was supposedly caused by her mother's fear of the Catholic Church and the studio bosses who might have blackballed her for having an illigitimate child in 1935.

It seems that Clark Gable had wanted the child and Loretta hid the infant from him at first. He finally saw the baby after he insisted. Years later, he visited his daughter,Judy, at her home when she was 15. Judy did not know he was her father and was awestruck as anybody would be to have Clark Gable in her living room. She had seen him in "Gone With The Wind". He sat and talked with her for a long time.

At that time, Loretta was married to a man named Tom Lewis, who, like Judy, also didn't know Judy's father was Clark Gable. He thought Judy was adopted by Loretta from an orphanage. Loretta could have told Tom Lewis and Judy about Clark Gable and allowed Judy an opportunity to love and know her real father.

Sadly, many of Judy's friends, whose parents were Hollywood stars, knew her real father was Clark Gable and Judy's highschool boyfriend knew it too, but they were afraid to say anything.

Loretta finally confessed to Judy that Clark Gable was Judy's father after Judy was an adult, had years of psychotherapy and confronted her. But she still denied her daughter her birthright and the legitimacy she craved by refusing to acknowledge this publicly.

This is a hobby for me, and Hill's book has all the answers. He has been a professional grower for many years. He covers all the details: planting, weeding, pruning and selling.

Easy to read and reasonably priced.

this book along witht the author, Ms. Joanne Nicholson,m is the biggest bunch of Bull Sh--. I would not give my worst enemy this book. Scrach that, first of all I would never buy this book.

I found this book to be one of the best I have ever read so far on color and clothing matters.It is nearly the ideal book on the subject.I found out ,finally, after reading Carole Jackson's book and others,in this book,exactly WHY I didn't fit into any ONE category in the usual way; I am one of those "Cross-over types" according to this knowledgable book = a "Light-Bright/Gentle" type.That Intensity and Contrast levels are so important.With up to date pictures, and less confusing/too much information crowded all together, is would be the best book on this subject out there.I HOPE there is an updated version of this coming out...