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Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 10
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jennifer Chiaverini's popular Elm Creek Quilts series has been an international hit. The year is 1924. Elizabeth loves Elm Creek, but she's also dreamed of traveling the world. When her beloved Henry finally professes his love, he asks her to leave with him and move to a California ranch. Elizabeth must decide whether she can really leave her home behind forever. She may dream of travel, but she always envisioned herself ending up at Elm Creek.
2) Show way
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Author Jennifer Chiaverini's beloved, heartwarming series continues with this celebration of family and friendship. As the wedding day of Sarah McClure's daughter Caroline approaches, Sarah's thoughts are filled with brides of Elm Creek Manor past and present. A wedding quilt is a powerful metaphor, and Sarah is determined that the blocks in her daughter's quilt will display a vivid pastiche of love in all its varieties.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Elm Creek Quilts announces openings for two new teachers, quilters everywhere are vying to land the prestigious post. The impending departure of two founding members means untold changes for the Elm Creek Quilters. As they begin the interview process, a single question emerges: Who can possibly take the place of beloved colleagues and friends? "We must evaluate all of the applicants' qualities," advises Master Quilter Sylvia Compson. "Our choice...
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quilters have flocked to Elm Creek Manor to learn from Master Quilter Sylvia Compson and her expert colleagues. There's Sarah, Sylvia's onetime apprentice who's paired her quilting accomplishments with a mind for running the business of Elm Creek Quilts; Agnes, who has a gift for applique; Gwen, who stitches innovative art quilts; Diane, a whiz at the technicalities of quick-piecing; and Bonnie, with her encyclopedic knowledge of folk art patterns....
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 11
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As each holiday season approaches, some revel in welcoming the New Year ahead; others quietly mourn the passing of time gone by. "We can't hold on to the past," says Master Quilter Sylvia Compson, "but we can keep the best part of 'Auld Lang Syne' in our hearts and in our memories, and we can look forward to the future with hope and resolve." As Sylvia, a late-in-life newlywed, has discovered, love can enter our lives at any age. Yet before she can...
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Elm Creek Quilters are as surprised as anyone when their beloved matriarch, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, marries her sweetheart, Andrew, at a festive holiday gathering at her ancestral home on Christmas Eve. Eager to celebrate the union, her friends decide to create a beautiful wedding quilt to warm the newlyweds' home and hearts. A secret with such good intentions, they reason, couldn't possibly do anyone harm. But although the quilting retreat...
Author
Series
Patchwork circle volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The local church ladies society and their eligible daughters decide to make a quilt for the new circuit-riding preacher and try to outdo one another to gain the attention of the young minister, whose endearing mistakes may not cover up his deception.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Christmas Eve comes to Elm Creek Manor, the tenor of the holiday is far from certain. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the Master Quilter, has her own reasons for preferring a quiet, even subdued, Christmas. Her young friend Sarah McClure, however, takes the opposite view and decides to deck the halls brightly. As she explores the trunks packed with Bergstrom family decorations that haven't been touched in more than fifty years, Sarah discovers a curious...
11) Family patterns
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Hart finds herself wrapped in a hundred-year-old mystery involving her grandfather, Noah Drayton, and an antique quilt with a hidden message which is the only clue to the disappearance of Noah's wife, Molly.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Elm Creek Manor, the week after Thanksgiving is "Quiltsgiving," a time to commence a season of generosity. From near and far, quilters and aspiring quilters gather for a special season of quilt camp, to make quilts for Project Linus, dedicated to providing handmade quilts to children in need. Love and comfort are sewn into the warm, bright quilts they stitch, and their stories collectively consider the strength of human connection and its rich...
13) A healing heart
Author
Series
Quilts of love volume 6
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bonnie faces a bleak winter alone, with her divorce looming. A welcome escape comes when Claire invites her to Maui to help launch an exciting new business: a quilter's retreat set at a bed and breakfast amid the vibrant colors and balmy breezes of the Hawaiian Islands.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Master quilter Sylvia Compson discovers a stash of letters in the attic of Elm Creek Manor and traces a tale back to 1859. An escaped slave, Joanna, spent a brief period at Elm Creek Farm until she was captured and returned to bondage, leaving her son in the care of the Bergstrom family. If Sylvia is to determine the fate of Joanna and her son, she must rely on one important clue-- the meticulous heirloom quilt Joanna stitched and left behind.
16) Homespun holiday
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sarah discovers that Belle, her boarder, has disappeared along with Sarah's family heirloom Christmas quilt. Will she be able to bring Belle and the Star of Bethlehem quilt home for Christmas?
Author
Series
Quilt chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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