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Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels

Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
Pages: 95
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4R80643
Weight: 1.1lb

20% off: $21.56
MSRP: $26.95

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Timeless Quilts - Inspired by the New York Times Best-selling Novels

• 11 traditional quilts for all skill levels, featuring more than 30 traditional blocks
• Read about your favorite Elm Creek novels: The Sugar Camp Quilt, The Christmas Quilt, Circle of Quilters, The Quilter's Homecoming and The New Year's Quilt
• Complete instructions and full-sized patterns for each quilt, plus a chapter on quilting basics

About the Author and Quiltmakers

Jennifer Chiaverini is the author of the best-selling Elm Creek Quilts novels, as well as Elm Creek Quilts and Return to Elm Creek, two collections of quilt projects inspired by the novels. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, Jennifer taught writing at the Pennsylvania State University and Edgewood College. Jennifer also designs the Elm Creek Quilts fabric lines for Red Rooster Fabrics. She lives with her husband and two sons in Madison, Wisconsin.

Carol Hattan learned to sew with her mother as a fifth grader and made her first quilt 36 years ago. A math teacher at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, Carol enjoys drafting patterns in the Geometer's Sketchpad, a math program and occasionally teaches stack-n-whack quilting classes.

Geraldine Neidenbach of Thousand Oaks, California, became interested in quilting when her daughter encouraged her to create a sampler quilt. As a high school mathematics teacher, she appreciates the beauty of geometry in every quilt. Upon retiring after 34 years of teaching, she plans to make more quilts, travel and spend time visiting with her two grandsons.

Heather Neidenbach graduated from UC Santa Cruz and earned a Master of Library Science from UCLA. She has worked as an archivist for Walt Disney Imagineering and as a high school English teacher, and is currently the librarian for La Reina High School in Thousand Oaks, California. She taught herself how to quilt while in high school, and although it is a bit worse for wear, she still uses the first quilt she ever made. In addition to quilting, Heather loves to crochet, a trait she inherited from her grandmother.

Pat Morris became interested in quilting in 1991 when she found out she was to become a grandma for the first time. She took a basic quilting class intending to make just one quilt but was hooked! She loves the possibilities for creative expression that quilting provides and continues to take classes from many local and national quilting teachers.

Christie Batterman began quilting in her 40s, inspired by a lifelong love of fabric and art. She began sewing at a young age when her mother taught her to make dresses for her doll and progresses into making her own clothes. In 2003, she retired from Visa International, culminating a 30-year career managing software applications development. Retirement lasted only a few weeks, however, as Christie went to work part-time in a local quilt shop, expanding her quilting pursuits to include teaching and creating original designs. She is partial to colorful, contemporary quilts, which are featured in her classes. Christie and a colleague are developing a new line of quilting patterns. A native of California, Christie lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sue Vollbrecht has been quilting for 33 years. Her passion for quiltmaking and her background in art led her to teaching, speaking engagements and quilt pattern design. In 1997, Sue started her longarm quilting business, Quilting Memories, and quickly became known and admired for designing custom patterns to make each customer's quilt unique. Sue lives with her husband, Rick, in Monona, Wisconsin and belongs to the Madison quilt guild, the Mad City Quilters.

Rita DeMarco started sewing as a young girl, experimenting with home decor and garment making, but fell in love with quilting in 1980 after taking a quilting class. Since then, she has taught satin-stitch appliqué, beginning machine quilting, binding and basic piecing. She and her daughter, Laura, are the proud owners of the oldest quilt shop in Georgia, Log Cabin Patchworks. They have successfully grown it from a 400-square-foot log cabin to over 2,000 square feet. They have designed many of their own quilts and have been featured in several prominent magazines.

Instruction Page

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Fictional Quilt Stories: Historical or quilt inspiration as a theme

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The Novel &/or
Quilt Pattern Book
by Jodi Barrows

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Best Quilts selected from previously published books & magazines

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