So boring!!! I just didn't enjoy this at all. The writing was fine, but I was mostly just bored. Elizabeth is a very cardboard character that didn't seem to have a lot of personality. I felt like I got to know more about the Lincoln's and the Civil War than I did the main character. This really w...
I found this book at Deseret Industries. It sounded good so I brought it home. Once I started it I couldn't put it down! Finished over the weekend we were at the cabin. It's told from the viewpoint of a runaway slave and how she quilted the "map" back to the place where she had runaway and gi...
This book centered around Sarah as she prepared for her daughter's wedding. Memories were triggered, and I felt that perhaps this is this last book about the group of ladies who were part of the "Elm Creek Quilters." The memories went back in time and filled in what had happened to many of the ...
Another book in the Elm Creek Quilts series but this one really does not mention much about quilts. Set in the time of prohibition in wine country in Sonoma and shows what hardship prohibition meant to wine growers and how some were bootleggers. Rosa is in an abusive relationship and runs away w...
I love books with strong female characters and Kate Chase fits the bill. Her father is widowed for the third time and his daughter, Kate takes over the role of a wife, as far as helping him with his presence in Washington Society. Kate organizes dinners to help her father's political efforts an...
I's say this book is just average. No biggie. The quilters have an annual tradition of gathering Thanksgiving leftovers and having a potluck on the Friday after the holiday. This is the "Quilter's Holiday," because they all bring projects to work on as Christmas gifts. On this particular "Qui...
When you read a book you can travel anywhere in the world. I have just got back from Hawaii and can't wait to return. Reading The Aloha Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini was such an interesting experience as it made me aware of the hobby of quilting. I have seen beautiful quilts on display at The N...
I love Hawaii and quilting! I liked how this plot followed Bonnie's life, rather than all of the Elm Creek Quilters.
Yet another book in Chiaverini's extensive quilting series. However, unlike the last book I was gushing over in the series (Circle of Quilters) this one didn't capture me as that one did. Its not that Chiaverini didn't write a good novel, its only that once again, this novel departed from the usu...
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 ha...
This volume contains the first three novels in the series: The Quilter's Apprentice, Round Robin, and The Cross-Country Quilters. For anyone who enjoys quilts, quilting, and cozy fiction this will make for a peaceful afternoon. As someone who has read a lot about quilting, I found Chiaverini's ...
The Elm Creek quilter's stories I know and love are now back. After being vaguely disappointed in the last two, I was beginning to worry that Chiaverini had lost her touch. Not so! With this novel she more than redeems herself. Since there are so many books before this one that it would take a wh...
Many years ago, I inherited an old quilt. I am not sure who made it, but after reading this book, I would love to learn its history.Sylvia Bergstrom Compson is getting married! She is a world renowned quilter and when a friend asks her which pattern she is going to use for her wedding quilt, she ...
Book 6 in the Elm Creek Quilter’s series shows some characters maturity. set about 5 years after Round Robin,The Master Quilter by Jennifer Chiaverini. This is mostly my confusion having read the books out of order. I mismatched my time lines. The stories though flow to each other nicely as both ...
The 4th book in this wonderful series, the Runaway Quilt could be read as a stand-alone or as part of the series. Due to this fact, I am not going to summarize the first three books as I don't think it would help any.Sylvia is the owner of Elm Creek Manor, a large place with grounds that plays ho...
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 cankeep the best part of 'Auld Lang Syne' in our hearts and in our memories, and we can loo...
One of the many books in the Elm Creek Quilt series by Jennifer Chiaverini, this book could actually be more of a stand alone than any of the others. The only commonality it has with the other books are that some of the characters were briefly mentioned in a story in one of the other books. Aside...
Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues with The Winding Ways Quilt, in which the arrival of newcomers into the circle of quilters heralds unexpected journeys down pathways near and far.Quilters have flocked to Elm Creek Manor to learn from Master Quilter Sylvia Compso...
She hoped that Sylvia was correct and the damage had come about because her sister had not properly washed and dried the tablecloth before putting it away, and not because the windows or water pipes had leaked.Kneeling, Anna reached deep into the cabinet and grasped another bundle of cloth—terry-...
“My dear wife,” he had written in the margins of a piece of newspaper. “Imprisoned in Libby at Richmond, Virginia. No chance of exchange. Send food, socks, no money. Uninjured but want nourishment and clean water. Filthy and overcrowded, many sick here. Kiss the children. God bless you.” The hast...
the doctor said, smiling. Thank God,” Sarah murmured. Her knees felt weak. If not for Matt’s arm around her waist, she would have fallen. “When can we see her?” Andrew asked. “In a few minutes. She’ll be a little groggy for a while. Don’t be alarmed if she doesn’t respond when you speak to her.” ...
Grace Daniels, a friend who was a museum curator in San Francisco, attended camp there every summer and gave it glowing reviews. He checked out their website and mulled it over for a few days before deciding to apply. He had all of the materials they wanted, so it was easy to assemble the applica...
Grandma’s Attic was nowhere near ready for business and would not be until she could repair the shelving units, but the broken glass and debris had been cleared away and the salvageable inventory culled from the waste. Once she accepted that she would not be able to reopen right away, her conscie...
When autumn came, she would miss the leaves turning on the stately trees that lined Elm Creek; a few months later, she would not see them raise their bare branches to a steel gray winter sky. Seasons would come and go, campers would come and go, Elm Creek Quilts would endure, all without Judy. As...
As the December days grew colder and the nights longer, the bygone years seemed to encroach ever more insistently into the present—vexing Sylvia day and night with their persistence. She imagined spirits of Christmases past crowding the halls, arguing over favorite chairs by the fire, looking abo...
—William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7 Lucy had already accepted John Hay’s invitation to join him and Robert Lincoln at the White House to study Spanish that evening, so she was relieved when, after the subject came up at supper, John did not ask if she intended to accompany her mother an...
Dr. Frank DiCarlo and the two graduate students who had accompanied him examined the site and, to Sylvia’s relief, did not criticize them for uncovering it. Instead, the students photographed the log from several angles while DiCarlo quizzed Sylvia about the cabin. She told him the little she kne...
Grant and Madame Jule Chapter Five AUGUST 1854–APRIL 1860 In late September, when they could defer it no longer, Ulys and Julia left their sons in her parents’ care and took the steamer to visit Hannah and Jesse Root Grant at their new residence in Covington, Kentucky, across the river from Cinci...
Aug 18. 1861. Mrs. Robert Mackintosh 2 Hyde Park Terrace London Dearest Mary, I will try to write you a line to-day, if only to thank you for your affectionate letter, which touched and consoled me much. How I am alive after what my eyes have seen, ...
Lincoln’s Dressmaker Chapter Fifteen OCTOBER 1866–FEBRUARY 1868 When Elizabeth returned to Washington, she had much business to attend to and mail to sort. Most of the letters were from Mrs. Lincoln, who struggled on as lonely and miserable as ever. In the summer she had become so weary of boardi...
She groped around at the foot of the bed for the comforter that she had folded out of the way when she first climbed beneath the covers, certain she would not need it, not in California. She drew it over herself and snuggled closer to Henry, who put his arm around her and slept on. The landlady h...
They were probably still in bed as she was, but sound asleep, wiped out from a late night of talking and laughing and sewing and indulging in wine from the resort’s own vineyards. A record ninety quilters had signed up for their annual benefit retreat, the most important of the guild’s many signi...
C. Buck, a member of the 79th New York Regiment, confined in the lower prison, near Rockett’s, was shot and instantly killed, about 1 o’clock Saturday morning, by one of the sentinels who kept watch over the building.—The latter observing the Yankee to approach the window in a suspicious manner, ...
Dorothea fumbled with her wraps, her eyes tearing from the sudden warmth and light. Her hands were stiff and useless. The woman swiftly removed Dorothea’s muffler and coat, then knelt to remove her boots and stockings. Dorothea began to shiver, shaking so uncontrollably that she could not have sp...