The Runaway Quilt

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439142615

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The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

The fourth book in the popular Elm Creek Quilts series explores a question that has long captured the imagination of quilters and historians alike: Did stationmasters of the Underground Railroad use quilts to signal to fugitive slaves? In her first novel, The Quilter's Apprentice, Jennifer Chiaverini wove quilting lore with tales from the World War II home front. Now, following Round Robin and The Cross-Country Quilters, Chiaverini revisits the legends of Elm Creek Manor, as Sylvia Compson discovers evidence of her ancestors' courageous involvement in the Underground Railroad. Alerted to the possibility that her family had ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia scours her attic and finds three quilts and a memoir written by Gerda, the spinster sister of clan patriarch Hans Bergstrom. The memoir describes the founding of Elm Creek Manor and how, using quilts as markers, Hans, his wife, Anneke, and Gerda came to beckon fugitive slaves to safety within its walls. When a runaway named Joanna arrives from a South Carolina plantation pregnant with her master's child, the Bergstroms shelter her through a long, dangerous winter -- imagining neither the impact of her presence nor the betrayal that awaits them. The memoir raises new questions for every one it answers, leading Sylvia ever deeper into the tangle of the Bergstrom legacy. Aided by the Elm Creek Quilters, as well as by descendants of others named in Gerda's tale, Sylvia dares to face the demons of her family's past and at the same time reaffirm her own moral center. A spellbinding fugue on the mysteries of heritage, The Runaway Quilt unfolds with all the drama and suspense of a classic in the making.

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416588528

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The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

With Jennifer Chiaverini's trademark historical suspense, The Sugar Camp Quilt blends danger, courage, and romance into a novel of antebellum America. History is thick with secrets in The Sugar Camp Quilt, seventh in the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series from bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger's passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. She discovers that a quilt she has stitched for her uncle Jacob with five unusual patterns of his own design contains hidden clues to guide runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. The heroic journey she undertakes leads to revelations about her own courage and resourcefulness—newfound qualities that may win her the heart of the best man she has ever known.

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101606643

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The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850--only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. However, Honor is drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, where she befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439148914

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The Cross-Country Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

Five friends work on a "challenge quilt" that is symbolic of the problems they face in their personal lives.

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416591726

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The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

A heartwarming rendition of how Christmas traditions at Elm Creek Manor were created—and embellished—over generations. 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 halls brightly. As she explores the trunks packed with Bergstrom family decorations that haven't been touched in more than fifty years, Sarah discovers a curious Christmas quilt. Begun in seasonal fabrics and patterns, the quilt remains unfinished. Sylvia reveals that the handiwork spans several generations and a quartet of Bergstrom quilters—her great aunt, her mother, her sister, and herself. As she examines the array of quilt blocks each family member contributed but never completed, memories of Christmases past emerge. At Elm Creek Manor, Christmas began as a celebration of simple virtues—joy and hope buoyed by the spirit of giving. As each successive generation of Bergstroms lived through its unique trials—the antebellum era, the Great Depression, World War II—tradition offered sustenance even during the most difficult times. For Sylvia, who is coping with the modern problem of family dispersed, estranged, or even forgotten, reconciliation with her personal history may prove as elusive as piecing the Christmas Quilt. Elm Creek Manor is full of secrets, from a Christmas tree with unusual properties to the sublime Bergstrom strudel recipe. Sylvia's tales at first seem to inform her family legacy but ultimately illuminate far more, from the importance of women's art to its place in commemorating our shared experience, at Christmastime and in every season.

Author : JENNIFER. CHIAVERINI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:732916638

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The RUNAWAY QUILT by JENNIFER. CHIAVERINI Pdf

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416556992

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The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

Sarah, struggling to find a job and a sense of place in her new town, finds herself learning how to quilt from a cantankerous old woman who also teaches her about the deep love that can exist between friends.

Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481406284

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Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson Pdf

When night falls, and all is quiet, a slave girl starts to run. She follows the moon into the woods, leading her loved ones away from their master. There's only one place where he might not find them, and it's under the quilt of night. Guided by the stars, they head north in the direction of freedom. At last, the girl sees a quilt -- the quilt with a center square made from deep blue fabric -- and knows it's a signal from friends on the Underground Railroad, welcoming her into their home. And so she steps forward... Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome team up again, in this stunning companion to Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Ransome's rich, powerful illustrations elicit all the emotion and suspense of Hopkinson's words, in a story that's sure to make your heart race and leave you breathless.

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451606119

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The Master Quilter by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

The impending marriage of Elm Creek's most renowned quilting instructor prompts the stitching of a perfect commemorative bridal quilt, an endeavor that is challenged by closely guarded secrets among the Elm Creek Quilters.

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439158548

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The Lost Quilter by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson treasures an antique quilt called by three names -- Birds in the Air, after its pattern; the Runaway Quilt, after the woman who sewed it; and the Elm Creek Quilt, after the place to which its maker longed to return. That quilter was Joanna, a fugitive slave who traveled by the Underground Railroad to reach safe haven in 1859 at Elm Creek Farm. Though Joanna's freedom proved short-lived -- she was forcibly returned by slave catchers to Josiah Chester's plantation in Virginia -- she left the Bergstrom family a most precious gift, her son. Hans and Anneke Bergstrom, along with maiden aunt Gerda, raised the boy as their own, and the secret of his identity died with their generation. Now it falls to Sylvia -- drawing upon Gerda's diary and Joanna's quilt -- to connect Joanna's past to present-day Elm Creek Manor. Just as Joanna could not have foreseen that, generations later, her quilt would become the subject of so much speculation and wonder, Sylvia and her friends never could have imagined the events Joanna witnessed in her lifetime. Punished for her escape by being sold off to her master's brother in Edisto Island, South Carolina, Joanna grieves over the loss of her son and resolves to run again, to reunite with him someday in the free North. Farther south than she has ever been, she nevertheless finds allies, friends, and even love in the slave quarter of Oak Grove, a cotton plantation where her skill with needle and thread soon becomes highly prized. Through hardship and deprivation, Joanna dreams of freedom and returning to Elm Creek Farm. Determined to remember each landmark on the route north, Joanna pieces a quilt of scraps left over from the household sewing, concealing clues within the meticulous stitches. Later, in service as a seamstress to the new bride of a Confederate officer, Joanna moves on to Charleston, where secrets she keeps will affect the fate of a nation, and her abilities and courage enable her to aid the country and the people she loves most. The knowledge that scraps can be pieced and sewn into simple lines -- beautiful both in and of themselves and also for what they represent and what they can accomplish -- carries Joanna through dark days. Sustaining herself and her family through ingenuity and art during the Civil War and into Reconstruction, Joanna leaves behind a remarkable artistic legacy that, at last, allows Sylvia to discover the fate of the long-lost quilter.

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780743296564

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An Elm Creek Quilts Album by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

This collection includes "The Runaway Quilt, The Quilter's Legacy," and "TheMaster Quilter."

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781451606102

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The Quilter's Legacy by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

Sylvia Bergstrom Compson and her fiancâe Andrew embark on a difficult journey to find her mother's missing heirloom quilts, all the while discovering secrets regarding her mother's life and untimely death.

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini,Nancy Odom
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607056058

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Elm Creek Quilts by Jennifer Chiaverini,Nancy Odom Pdf

12 quilt projects based on the bestselling Elm Creek Quilts novels.

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416551898

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Circle of Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Christmas Quilt stitches up “a true delight, complete with fascinating characters from all walks of life” (Romantic Times). When Elm Creek Quilts announces openings for two new teachers, quilters everywhere are vying to land the prestigious post. The impending departure of two founding members means untold changes for the Elm Creek Quilters. As they begin the interview process, a single question emerges: Who can possibly take the place of beloved colleagues and friends? “We must evaluate all of the applicants’ qualities,” advises Master Quilter Sylvia Compson. “Our choice will say as much about us as it says about who we decide to hire.” Who merits a place among the circle of quilters? Will it be Maggie, whose love of history shines through in all her projects; Anna, whose food-themed quilts are wonderfully innovative; Russ, the male quilter with a completely original style; Karen, a novice teacher whose gifts for language complement her deep understanding of the quilters’ mission; or Gretchen, the soulful veteran whose craft is inspired by quilting tradition? “The pleasures of the novel are many—well-drawn characters, cleverly intersecting plotlines, and Chiaverini’s charming sense of humor among them . . . [a] sweet, escapist series.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Hachette Digital
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Prisoners as artists
ISBN : 1843681463

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The Sleep Quilt by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

The Sleep Quilt is unlike any other quilt you will have seen. Commissioned by Tracy Chevalier, it is entirely stitched and quilted by prisoners in some of Britain's toughest jails. Each of the 63 squares explores what sleep means in prison. A moment of escape for some, for others a dark return to all they most regret in life, sleep has a great significance in jail that is only strengthened by the difficulty of finding it in the relentlessly noisy, hot and cramped environment. By turns poignant, witty, lighthearted and tragic, The Sleep Quilt shines a light on lives that few outside can guess at. An essay by Tracy Chevalier and an introduction by Katy Emck of Fine Cell Work, the charity that made the quilt possible, as well as many quotations from prisoners, frame this remarkable work.