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Post by partndn on Nov 3, 2018 1:00:54 GMT
I just finished the first one. The Quilter's ApprenticeI liked it. Plan to check out another tomorrow. Anyone familiar? *these are stories, subject around quilting, so I don't imagine any fellas have heard of or read them................. but I ain't judgin! jenniferchiaverini.com/ |
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Post by cccindy on Nov 4, 2018 4:31:17 GMT
Yes, I've read & enjoyed the Elm Creek Quilters series. The stories don't require murder to fuel a little family mystery.
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Post by partndn on Nov 5, 2018 4:14:16 GMT
Yes, I've read & enjoyed the Elm Creek Quilters series. The stories don't require murder to fuel a little family mystery. Nice! Glad to see an endorsement. |
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Post by partndn on Nov 10, 2018 2:42:31 GMT
I finished Round Robin
Now started The Christmas Quilt
these are fun
Also a reminder I need to move some UFO's to the finished project status.
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Post by partndn on Apr 6, 2019 14:33:38 GMT
Pretty much finished all the Elm Creek series, minus one or two that my library doesn't have.
Also read a couple of her novels that are usually civil war era based. Pretty good also.
I read Mrs. Lincoln's Rival
and The Spymistress
Now reading Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2019 19:04:40 GMT
They were good reading at the time I read them, which was probably 10 years ago. I hadn't been quilting for very long and they were entertaining.
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Post by joebill on Apr 8, 2019 2:29:25 GMT
Off topic, but a strange bit of lore about quilting. My Mom was a super active quilting addict who set up when I was just a little whipper to sew the backing on quits on the machine, so my sister and I were around it daily until we both left home. I never claimed to know anything about it, but my sister is and always was an expert on everything she ever saw or heard of. We really don't talk any more, but from time to time I will check out whatever she is ballyhooing about at the moment, and a few years ago, found the following article, where Nancy claimed to have unearthed codes that women used to sew into quilts to direct slaves on the underground railroad. Took me about 3 seconds to ask myself why, if the slaves got near enough to the quilts to count the knots and decipher the codes, did the ladies not just tell them where to go and how to get there. I could really not answer myself to my satisfaction, but then I have been told I am a cynic without a romantic bone in my body. Anyhow, here is the article, and Sis is called "Rollings Saul".... archives.lincolndailynews.com/2015/Oct/07/Features/comm101315_QUILT.shtmlEnjoy......Joe |
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Post by partndn on Apr 8, 2019 13:21:35 GMT
Interesting article joebill, The curiosity of the truth about signal quilts is part of some of the stories. A few stories that take place in civil war era write in the actual use of such quilts. Then, some present day stories include the difficulty in research of whether those tales are actually true. It's pretty much left to each of us to ponder since there's no real proof. Good for stories either way. |
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Post by themotherhen on Apr 17, 2019 3:36:32 GMT
partndn, I'm so glad that you posted this thread! Last week I checked out her book, The Union Quilters, and I have enjoyed it so much! I just finished it tonight after the boys went to bed. Thanks for the reminder.
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Post by partndn on Apr 17, 2019 18:39:19 GMT
Very good themotherhen,  I've read them all now, and I think my personal favorite would be The Sugar Camp Quilt. That one's story is the most closely tied to the use of an actual signal quilt.. the sometimes surprising characters who were involved.. and some mystery/anxiety as to the happenings surrounding it. It will involve Dorothy, who you just read about, going a tad backwards in her life. But that doesn't hurt the story. |
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Post by themotherhen on Apr 17, 2019 20:29:35 GMT
partndn, thanks for the review, we are going to the library tomorrow. I can return the read book for another!
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