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Material Pleasures
A Biography of Maxine Teele, Iowa Quilter

Synopsis

Maxine Teele was a master quilter as well as an historian, judge, author, and teacher. She was well known in the national quilting community, although she lived all her life in Iowa. She designed the majority of the seventy quilts that she made, making both applique and pieced for family and friends. Her quilts have been shown all over the country: Denver, Washington, D.C., Paducah, Kentucky, Lowell, MA, and others.

The book includes short biographical sketches of Cuesta Benberry, Joyce Gross, Mary Schafer, and Florence Peto who were friends of Maxine's, as well as inductees into the Quilters Hall of Fame.

The book is 134 pages, full color with over fifty professionally taken photographs of her quilts. It was written by her daughter. After reading the book, Cuesta Benberry told the daughter, "It is the type of book only a daughter could write."

Author Biography

Mary Jo Teele Reed

Mary Jo Teele Reed is a retired high school English teacher who lives in Muscatine, IA. She wrote the biography of her mother with help and encouragement from such quilt notables as Cuesta Benberry and Mary Schafer who were good friends of her mother's. This is her first book.