Back Cover Information
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.
Table of Contents
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|
| The Spirit of Elm Creek Quilts |
4 |
| From The Sugar Camp Quilt |
7 |
| * Authors Album |
10 |
| * Constance's Marriage
Quilt |
14 |
| * The Sugar Camp Quilt |
18 |
| From the Christmas Quilt |
26 |
| * Christmas Memories |
28 |
| * Christmas Greetings
From Elm Creek Manor |
35 |
| From the Circle of Quilters |
55 |
| * Violets for Gretchen |
57 |
| * Mill Girls |
62 |
| From The Quilter's Homecoming |
65 |
| * Lucinda's Gift |
67 |
| * Road to Triumph Ranch |
71 |
| * Arboles Valley Star |
74 |
| From The New Year's Quilt |
78 |
| * New Year's Reflections
|
80 |
| Quilting 101 |
88 |
| About the Author |
93 |
| About the Quiltmakers |
93 |
| Resources |
95 |
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Instruction Page
New Year's Reflections
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