Our history and values at Storybook Quilts

Nancy Mattison designs the Storybook Quilts

My goal is for each and every Storybook Quilt to create comfort, foster love and encourage
the development of a child’s imagination. I see a child being held on the lap of a close
relative, cuddled up under the quilt, listening to a familiar and soothing voice. The tale the
voice is telling plays out in the fabrics in quilt squares, which both the reader and the listener
seek out as the story goes along.

To heighten interest in the story, the child’s and relatives’ names, expressions and other
familiar details are incorporated into the story itself. So, the story becomes not just a story,
but an adventure in which the child participates.

After a reading or two, the quilt develops a life of its own. As the child looks again and again
at the quilt squares, bits of the story spring easily to mind and new twists in the story are
imagined. That wonderful, comforting feeling of being held and read to becomes an integral
part of the quilt—always there for your child, now and for years to come.

I believe that the owner of each Storybook Quilt will find even greater joy in using it than I
have had in creating it.

O U R S T O R Y

I grew up in the country. Telling a good story was one
measure of a man there. I remember being fascinated as
a child as I listened to everyday events being told with
such skill that my attention never wavered.

Women’s arts, in my family, tended to be very practical.
Quilting, for example, offered not only pleasure in the
making and the viewing, but also warmth and comfort.
The fabrics and colors in the quilts fascinated me.
Storybook Quilts springs from this background.

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