Elm Creek Quilts [06] The Master Quilter (45 page)

More titles in the Elm Creek Quilts Series from Simon & Schuster

The Quilter’s Apprentice

Reclusive Elm Creek master quilter Sylvia Compson shares not only her creative gifts with new arrival Sarah McClure, but also the intricate, varied threads of her life story. As the darker sections of a quilt enhance the bright ones, Sarah sees how the mistakes of the past can lead the way to new understanding and a fresh start.

Round Robin

The Elm Creek Quilters are making a Round Robin quilt—concentric patchwork borders surrounding a central block—for Sylvia Compson. But as each friend in turn confronts a personal crisis, the quilt becomes a symbol of the complex and enduring bonds between mothers and daughters, sisters and friends.

The Cross-Country Quilters

A group of far-flung quilting friends meet at Elm Creek Manor intending to complete, in one year’s time, a “challenge quilt” symbolic of each woman’s personal goals. But as the year goes by, Julia, Megan, Donna, Grace, and Vinnie find their relationship foundering: Will the “challenge quilt” be completed with their friendship still intact?

The Runaway Quilt

Sylvia Compson learns of her ancestors’ ties to the Underground Railroad through the memoir of her great-grandfather’s spinster sister, Gerda Bergstrom. Soon she finds herself unraveling a secret family legacy of discord and betrayal, buried for generations, through clues hidden in the antique quilts discovered in Elm Creek Manor’s attic.

The Quilter’s Legacy

When precious heirloom quilts belonging to Sylvia Compson’s mother, who died when Sylvia was a child, turn up missing from Elm Creek Manor, Sylvia is determined to track them down. As she recovers some of the missing quilts and mourns others as lost forever, she reflects on the woman her mother was and mourns the woman she never knew.

The Master Quilter

The Elm Creek Quilters plan a bridal quilt to celebrate Sylvia Compson’s wedding to sweetheart Andrew—even if they can’t believe she eloped without them. But the bridal quilt is only one secret the quilters are keeping among them, and as the quilt blocks accumulate, it becomes clear the project will be jeopardized unless honesty is once again given pride of place.

The Sugar Camp Quilt

In Creek’s Crossing, Pennsylvania, just before the Civil War, Dorothea Granger’s passage from innocence to wisdom is set against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. When she learns the truth behind the quilt she has stitched for her uncle Jacob at his request, the journey she undertakes tests her strength—and leads her to love.

Circle of Quilters

The impending departure of two founding members leaves an opening for new teachers at Elm Creek Manor, and quilters everywhere are vying to land the prestigious post. But as the remaining quilters begin the interview process, a single question emerges: Who can possibly take the place of cherished colleagues and friends?

The Quilter’s Homecoming

A Roaring Twenties adventure unfolds as young bride Elizabeth Bergstrom Nelson sets out from Elm Creek Manor for California, for what she believes is her new home at Triumph Ranch. But when the couple learn their deed is a fake, it’s up to resourceful Elizabeth to stitch the rift that will allow them to live in peace with the past—and build a future.

The Winding Ways Quilt

True to its form, the circle of quilters at Elm Creek has remained unbroken, but the arrival of two new faces heralds unexpected challenges. As Sylvia Compson plans a tribute to the group—a Winding Ways quilt, whose curved pieces symbolize a journey—will her choice inspire the others to treasure their unique parts in a changing but still-magnificent whole?

The Lost Quilter

Sylvia Bergstrom Compson Cooper treasures an antique quilt made by Joanna, a fugitive slave who found safe haven at Elm Creek Farm in 1859. Joanna’s remarkable artistry sustained her through years of brutality. Now it falls to Sylvia—drawing upon Gerda Bergstrom’s diary and Joanna’s quilt—to connect Joanna’s legacy to present-day Elm Creek Manor.

The Aloha Quilt

Her quilt shop out of business and her divorce looming, Bonnie Markham decides to flee the winter in Elm Creek for a quilter’s retreat in Maui. When Bonnie’s cheating soon-to-be ex decides he wants her share of Elm Creek Quilts, threatening her livelihood and her friendships, it’s the help of new friends—and new love—that will show her the way forward.

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