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For the Elm Creek Quilters, the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the quilting season, a time to gather at Elm Creek Manor and spend the day stitching holiday gifts for loved ones. This year, in keeping with the season's spirit of gratitude, Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson Cooper is eager to revive a cherished family tradition. A recent remodeling of the manor's kitchen unearthed a cornucopia that once served as the centerpiece of the Bergstrom family's holiday table. Into it, each Bergstrom would place an object that symbolized something he or she was especially thankful for that year. On this quilter's holiday, Sylvia has invited her friends to continue the tradition by sewing quilt blocks that represent their thankfulness and gratitude.
As each quilter explains the significance of her carefully chosen block, stories of love and longing for family and friends emerge—feelings that are also expressed in the gifts they work on throughout the day.
As an early winter storm blankets Elm Creek Manor in heavy snow, the quilters find new meanings in their best-loved traditions and new reasons to be thankful. A Quilter's Holiday is a story of holiday spirit, in its truest, most generous sense.
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- ISBN: 9781439143148
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- ISBN: 9781439143148
- File size: 1579 KB
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- English
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October 1, 2009
The Elm Creek Quilters are back for their third holiday outing (after "The New Year's Quilt"). Everyone is busy making gifts, Sarah is anticipating the birth of twins while her husband takes work out of town, and Sylvia discovers previously unknown family ties. Expect demand from fans of this best-selling gentle series. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 7/09.]Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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November 1, 2009
Chiaverinis latest offering is another in her series of novels intended for the holiday season. To follow The Christmas Quilt (2005), The New Years Quilt (2007), and a novel leading up to Thanksgiving (The Quilters Kitchen, 2008), she needed to get a little more inventive this time. The Quilters Holiday concerns a tradition taking place the day after Thanksgiving. The quilters circle gathers at the Elm Creek manor for a daylong marathon to create holiday decorations or gifts. The group pauses in their work for a scrumptious potluck lunch of dishes made from Thanksgiving leftovers. This year, in the midst of an early snowstorm, they also renew an old cornucopia tradition. Each quilter inserts a quilt block into an antique cornucopia, representing something for which they are especially thankful. Although the novel is a continuation of the long-running Elm Creek series, it may also be read as a stand-alone story evoking the holiday spirit. Longtime fans of the series will learn more of the quilters backstories and get delightful hints of what will follow in subsequent novels. A must for series fans.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)
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