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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. On this quilter's holiday, Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom has invited her friends to continue an old family tradition of sewing quilt blocks representing 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.
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LibraryThing member khiemstra631
Here's another Elm Creek Quilts novel. This is a Christmas book and features only the quilting camp staff with no students in attendance. The book follows Chiaverini's standard format of getting inside the minds of each staff member and giving her perspective on the happenings of the day. In this
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case, the quilters are snowed in at the manor the day after Thanksgiving. There's no murder or mayhem, just a little romance brewing. It's all charmingly done, making this a really pleasant read. It's probably one of the better entries in this year's crop of Christmas novels by well-known authors. There's nothing here not to like! Show Less
LibraryThing member busyreadin
One of the best of her past few books. It was nice to have more time with some of the original charactes.
LibraryThing member maryloudinon
Older lady befrends young bride. Tells tails while quilting.
LibraryThing member mchwest
Once again, a make you feel at home book. and you don't even have to quilt to enjoy her books
LibraryThing member CatQuilt
This is one in the series of Elm Creek Quilt novels by MsChiaverini. I enjoy this series because I love quilting. The character development though is rather 2-dimentional (while comforting if that makes any sense). In this novel, however, towards the end, the author attempts to hit us over the head
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with the evils of Thanksgiving (I kid you not) and the abuses of native Americans... It left a bad taste in my mouth. Show Less
LibraryThing member jbarr5
A Quilter's Holiday, by Jennifer Chalverni
Have read most of the other books in this series and enjoy not only the patterns but the friendship others get by coming together to sew for charity.
Love hearing of the occupants of the house and what the latest is with their families.
Thanksgiving tradition
Quilting marathon and everyone has brought a leftover dish from the special day to share with all quilters that have assembled. Snow is due and a lot of it.
Loved hearing of how to name a quilt and of the advent calendars-much like the one our kids when younger had.
Loved learning of the importance of the 9 block and how many other things in our lifes correlate to it.
Alternating chapters from those at the celebration talk about what's going on in their lives. So many mysteries and clues throughout.
Auction of their items, proceeds go to food bank, so generous! Hate that the snow brings about a lot of tragedies....love hearing of the winter get together and where the proceeds for that go.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Have read most of the other books in this series and enjoy not only the patterns but the friendship others get by coming together to sew for charity.
Love hearing of the occupants of the house and what the latest is with their families.
Thanksgiving tradition
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by sewing quilt blocks and why they selected that particular one..Quilting marathon and everyone has brought a leftover dish from the special day to share with all quilters that have assembled. Snow is due and a lot of it.
Loved hearing of how to name a quilt and of the advent calendars-much like the one our kids when younger had.
Loved learning of the importance of the 9 block and how many other things in our lifes correlate to it.
Alternating chapters from those at the celebration talk about what's going on in their lives. So many mysteries and clues throughout.
Auction of their items, proceeds go to food bank, so generous! Hate that the snow brings about a lot of tragedies....love hearing of the winter get together and where the proceeds for that go.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
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LibraryThing member JalenV
A Quilter's Holiday teaches readers more about the original and new Elm Creek Quilters. I particularly enjoyed Sylvia learning about what happened to her favorite cousin, Elizabeth Bergstrom Nelson; Gretchen and Joe Hartley being good stewards of their talents, and Gwen's mentor, Dr. Victoria
In chapter four we learn about the origins of Hanukkah, dreidels, and a couple of stories about the Italian gift giver on January 6th, La Befana.
In chapter six we learn about bone marrow donations because one of the Elm Creek Quilters had a friend who came down with the lymphoma that killed her mother, grandmother, and two sisters.
I don't quilt, but I enjoy the characters. Learning new things is fun, too.
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Stark. I did not enjoy what Hank McClure did to Matt and Sarah, especially when Sarah is carrying his grandchildren.In chapter four we learn about the origins of Hanukkah, dreidels, and a couple of stories about the Italian gift giver on January 6th, La Befana.
In chapter six we learn about bone marrow donations because one of the Elm Creek Quilters had a friend who came down with the lymphoma that killed her mother, grandmother, and two sisters.
I don't quilt, but I enjoy the characters. Learning new things is fun, too.
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Publication
Simon & Schuster
Original publication date
2009-10
Pages
278
ISBN
978-1-4391-3932