Elm Creek Quilts

It all begins at Elm Creek Manor in rural Pennsylvania.

Sylvia Bergstrom Compson is a woman who has lived through the hardships of the World War II. Her family was torn apart by tragedy of jealously, betrayal and misunderstanding. A fear of what can never be undone but forgiven.

Along the way she has become a master quilter. She attends a art college and uses her gift of quilting experience as a quilt lecturer for quilt shows and guilds across Pennsylvania. She returns home after fifty years to take care of the Elm Creek Estate. She is saddened by what has become of her home she grew up at. She is cantankerous upon her return home at first but softens as time heals the memories and new friendships form.

In this lens you'll learn more about a friendship between that unfolds between Mrs. Compson and Sarah. Friendships are a blessing in a disguise.

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Friendship begins....

Sylvia Compson hires a personal assistant, Sarah McClure to help get the Manor ready to sell but in the meantime as Sarah learns to quilt under Sylvia's instruction; the story unfolds of her life as well Sarah's.

As the friendship builds and forgiveness endures; they turn the Manor into a quilt camp. A quilt camp is a retreat for quilters to get away; to share patterns, relax and make new friends.

"A heartwarming story of relationships that, like pieces of a quilt, can be connected with discord or with harmony. You'll discover friendship here, and you'll learn a thing or two about quilting, too." -Sandra Dallas, author of The Persian Pickle Club

The sampler quilt featured in this photo is the one that Sylvia teaches Sarah to make in the first book The Quilter's Apprentice. This pattern is in the first pattern book called "Elm Creek Quilts: Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels."

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What I love about both of these fictional characters is the courage and strength they share about their lives. How they've found solutions through the sharing with one another, the giving of forgiveness and the friendship they made. Even though I am not a quilter these story's are heartwarming; to learn art of piecing my life together into quilting designs and to make friends with those like Sylvia and Sarah.

I am half-way through these novels. As the New Year approaches so does the next book "The New Year's Quilt".

ELM CREEK QUILTS NOVELS

To get you copy of these books click here to taken to a Amazon link: Elm Creek Series

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1. The Quilter's Apprentice
2. Round Robin
3. The Cross Country Quilters
4. The Runaway Quilt
5. The Quilters Legacy
6. The Master Quilter
7. The Sugar Camp Quilt
8. The Christmas Quilt
9. Circle of Quilters
10. The Quilter's Homecoming
11. The New Year's Quilt
12. The Winding Ways Quilt
13. The Quilter's Kitchen
14. The Lost Quilter
15. A Quilter's Holiday
16. The Aloha Quilt
17. The Union Quilters
18. The Wedding Quilt
19. Sonoma Rose
20. The Giving Quilt

CHRISTMAS MEMORIES

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"Giving from the heart blesses the giver as much as the recipient, and while giving may not always be easy, it is always worthwhile." Excerpt by Elm Creek Giving Novel

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