Traditions From Elm Creek Quilts: Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels

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This is a fabulous collection of timeless and beautiful quilts inspired by the bestselling "Elm Creek" novels. Bring a bit of "Elm Creek" into your home with the latest quilt designs inspired by the "New York Times" best-selling novels. This new collection includes two Hawaiian-style patterns and a Double Wedding Ring quilt, as well as the popular Cornucopia of Thanks sampler. Quilters will also get a fascinating "behind-the-seams" look at each story that featured these pieced and applique favourites - including "The Winding Ways Quilt", "The Quilter's Kitchen", "A Quilter's Holiday", and "The Wedding Quilt".

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Nov 11

Chiaverini, author of the popular "Elm Creek Quilts" novels (e.g., The Wedding Quilt), presents a collection of quilts inspired by her books. The projects range from traditonal piecework to complex aplique, and step-by-step cutting and piecing instructions (including templates where needed) are included. Most projects lean toward classic Americana in both design and color choice, but individual quilters can adapt and modify to suit their tastes. The colleciton is targeted to Chiaverini's fans - she includes an essay on the inspiration behind her novels, as well as numberous excerpts - but the projects will appeal to quilters of all skill levels.

Oct 11

Chiaverini (The Wedding Quilt) writes novels plotted around the Elm Creek Quilters. She describes well the work produced by the women, but all the fine adjectives in the fiction do not do justice to the quilts she produces. Perhaps that's why, in addition to 18 novels, Chiaverini has also authored four collections of quilt projects, based on the novels' quilts. Her newest contains quilts described in Chiaverini's last half-dozen novels, along with sidebar quotes from the novels, but discusses little of the quilts themselves. For The Last Quilter, set in the Civil War, Chiaverini designed Mr. Lincoln's Spy. Pineapple Patch, the quilt developed from The Aloha Quilt, is worked in an emerald green material set in ivory from Chiaverini's fabric line. She designed the 13 projects, including two holiday quilts, and pieced them, sometimes aided by her mother, Geraldine Neidenbach, and her sister, Heather Neidenbach; a friend, Sue Vollbrecht, machine-quilted them. Templates are sized to work with. The directions, from cutting to constructing, instruct the intermediate quilter; for example, terms like "cornerstones" are not defined and the quilter is occasionally referred to a general quiltmaking book for technique advice.

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Jennifer Chiaverini is the author of the New York Times best-selling Elm Creek Quilts series, as well as five previous collections of quilt patterns from C&TPublishing inspired by her novels. Her most recent novels are Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and The Spymistress. Her original quilt designs have been featured in Country Woman, Quiltmaker, and Quilt, and her short stories have appeared in Quiltmaker and Quilters Newsletter. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she lives with her husband and two sons in Madison, Wisconsin.