The Elm Creek Quilt Collection

 The Elm Creek Quilt Collection

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       November 26, 2014

 

Author  Jenifer Chiaverini

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ISBN:                 978-1-4391-9779-0
Publisher:         Simon and Schuster
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Three delightful stories in one cover will both appeal to and delight the hearts of the Elm Creek Quilters Society fans.  Each of the stories deals with a different era of American society and each story unfolds the miniature of everyday life in a small town.  Like most small town societies there is a common thread which binds them together as there is in quilting and in so many ways the traditional craft of quilting illustrated the fabric of society.

 

The Sugar Camp Quilt introduces us to a quilt designed to give runaway slaves the direction along the underground railway in the days before the Civil war – love, courage and bravery of not only the runaways  bit the people who risked all to help come to life in the pages.

Circle of Quilters leads us to the competitiveness which abounds when the famous Elm Creek Quilts announces there is a vacancy for a new teacher. Who will win this prestigious position and who could possible take the place of their beloved colleges and friends.

The Quilters Homecoming is a rollicking adventure of a newlywed couple who leave behind all they love to follow a dream into uncharted territory. Elizabeth and Henry Bergstrom reach their destination but rather than take over ownership of their ranch they discover the deeds are false and they have to work for their living. Facing the challenges of life in the raw brings out best and the worst in this young couple but in the end love conquers all and helps heal a rift between the past and the future.

Fiction