The Lost Quilter: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini

Mar 2009 · The Elm Creek Quilts Book 14 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Jennifer Chiaverini’s bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues as Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson’s exploration of her ancestry reveals unexpected connections between herself and long-lost visitor to Elm Creek Manor.

Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson treasures a remarkable heirloom known as Birds in the Air, the Runaway Quilt, and the Elm Creek Quilt—each name honoring the woman who created it. That quilter was Joanna, a fugitive slave who traveled by the Underground Railroad to reach safe haven in 1859 at Elm Creek Farm.

Though Joanna was captured and forcibly returned to a plantation in Virginia, she left the Bergstrom family a most precious gift: her son. The Bergstrom family raised the boy as their own, and the secret of his identity died with their generation. Now it falls to Sylvia—drawing upon an old family diary and Joanna’s quilt—to connect Joanna’s past to present-day Elm Creek Manor.

Deftly weaving together Joanna’s harrowing story and acts of bravery with Sylvia’s present-day determination to uncover the truth, The Lost Quilter is a moving testament to resilience, love, and the power of art to carry freedom’s promise across time.

Ratings and reviews

Normal challenges are not to be disturbed; at all touched, or have own domain entered. It's a master and leader of own life. Breathing is mastered by the toddler year because growing out of the word is the only way to bigger ones behind them. Meditating: yoga, walking and talking the same year provide strength for own schedule of busy people. Combining the words science and religion for 'let there be light" are required for psychiatrist's evaluation result of normal - defends own money well - being. To get normal results from the doctors is the only survival. These is not more from them then normal or not.

Loved reading this series. Especially so because I'm a quilter

About the author

Jennifer Chiaverini is the author of the New York Times bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series, five collections of quilt projects, and several historical fiction novels. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she lives with her husband and sons in Madison, Wisconsin. To learn more, visit JenniferChiaverini.com.