Product Description

As Elm Creek Quilt Camp opens for a brand-new season, for the first time there will be new faces on the faculty. Quilters have flocked to Elm Creek Manor to learn from the Master Quilter, Sylvia Compson, and her expert colleagues, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of the craft. There's Sarah, Sylvia's onetime apprentice who's paired her quilting accomplishments with a mind for running the business of Elm Creek Quilts; Agnes, who has a gift for applique; Gwen, who stitches innovative art quilts; Diane, a whiz at the technicalities of quick-piecing; and Bonnie's encyclopaedic knowledge of folk art patterns. But with two of the original Elm Creek Quilters departing to pursue other opportunities, will the new teachers be able to fill in the gaps created by the loss of Judy's knowledge of special borders and bindings, or Summer's command of historical patterns and hand-dying? In addition to taking on demanding teaching responsibilities, the newcomers face a far more daunting task-to make whole the broken Circle of Quilters...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #204855 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

About the Author
Jennifer Chiaverini, a former writing instructor at Pennsylvania State University, is working on her third novel. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she quilts with the Mad City Quilters.

Customer Reviews

The story finally continues
Finally we are back at Elm Creek Manor! In "The Winding Ways Quilt", the 12th of the Elm Creek Quilts series, Mrs. Chiaverini picks up the story line where she left it in her 9th novel, "The Circle of Quilters". We get new glimpses of the lives and the past of the characters we know and love from the previous books. We learn how they discovered the art of quilting and how it became such an important part of their lives.

"The Winding Ways Quilt" is a story about change - occurrences in women's lives, how those changes affect their life paths and how they come to accept those changes; the winding ways of life. It is a story of how these women found comfort and togethernes through quilting; about strengthening old friendships, and creating bonds of new friendships.

If you enjoyed the previous Elm Creek quilts novels, this book is a must-read! But I wouldn't recommend this as your first meeting with the world of Elm Creek, but if you have read at least "Round Robin" and "The Circle of Quilters" - and I strongly suggest you do!!! - you are going to LOVE this book! Enjoy reading!

A warm quilt to read!
Having read the first review - and having read the rest of the series - I went ahead and bought this book, and loved it. It was some time since I had read "Circle of Quilters" and I was disappointed by "The Christmas Quilt", but this book captured me just as the earlier Elm Creek books did. The new characters are beginning to come to life, the ending leaves us wanting to know whether they will settle in for a long stay or not. This is a sad time for me and a little time spent with the quilters was just what I needed. Escapism at its best.