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The Quilts Of Gee's Bend (hardcover)
The Quilts Of Gee's Bend (hardcover) - By John Beardsley,jane Livingston,william Arnett,pauljane Arnett
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General Fiction - Anna Del Maso had known that she wanted to be a chef since she was in the seventh grade. Somehow everything in my life ends up being about food, she realizes, as she begins ... - The Quilter's Kitchen (Elm Creek Quilts Series #13) (Books)
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The Elephant Quilt (Reinforced Hardcover)
Description In this vibrantly illustrated picture book, Lily Rose and her Grandma stitch a quilt that tells the spirited story of their family's journey from Missouri to California by covered wagon in 1859. Lily Rose and Grandma stitch a quilt that tells the story of their family's journey from Missouri to California by covered wagon in 1859.
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The Name Quilt (illustrated) (hardcover)
The Name Quilt (illustrated) (hardcover) - By Phyllis Root,margot Apple
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Minna Puts A Lot Of Thought Into Her Kindness Project For School, And, When She Starts Writing, Drawing, And Cutting, A Brilliant Idea Takes Shape And Spreads Throughout The Whole School - By Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
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Hardcover, The Memory Quilt: A Christmas Story for Our Times
General Fiction - A perfect Christmas for Lela Edwards this year would include the presence of her husband, her three daughters, and her favorite granddaughter, Darcie. They would each be ... - The Memory Quilt: A Christmas Story for Our Times (Books)
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Alerted to the possibility that her family had ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia scours her attic and finds three quilts and a memoir written by Gerda, the spinster sister of clan patriarch Hans Bergstrom. The memoir describes the founding of Elm Creek Manor and how, using quilts as markers, Hans, his wife, Anneke, and Gerda came to beckon fugitive slaves to safety within its walls. When a runaway named Joanna arrives from a South Carolina plantation pregnant with her master's child, the Bergstroms...
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The Quilt (a History And Celebration Of An American Art Form) (hardcover)
The Quilt (a History And Celebration Of An American Art Form) (hardcover) - By Elise Schebler Roberts
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The Patchwork Quilt (Hardcover)
Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
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General Fiction - When Christmas Eve comes to Elm Creek Manor, the tenor of the holiday is far from certain. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the Master Quilter, has her own reasons for preferring a ... - The Christmas Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts Series #8) (Books)
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As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara is luckier than the slaves who work the fields. Still, she dreams of a reunion with her Momma, who lives on another plantation–and even of running away to freedom. Then she hears two slaves talking about how they could find the Underground Railroad if only they had a map. In a flash of inspiration, Clara sees how she can use the cloth in her scrap bag to make a map of the land–a freedom quilt–that no master will ever suspect. Drawn from true incidents in African...
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Tells Of One Girl's Escape From Slavery Into Freedom Via The Underground Railroad, Through Treacherous Terrain And Under Cover Of Darkness, In Order To Reach A Home Where A Special Quilt Hangs To Show That She Has Reached A Safe Destination. - By Deborah Hopkinson,james E. Ransome
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It s Brynne s birthday, but because it is June, Brynne is confused when her Grandma hands her a package decked in holiday bows. Out spills fabric of green and red a birthday gift for her and a Christmas gift for a child in a far away land. Each day Brynne goes to Grandma s house to learn to quilt, and as they sew, Grandma tells Brynne of Christmases past, including the first when a baby was born in a lonely stable. But Brynne s parents have a Christmas surprise of their own the quilt she is making is for her new baby brother!
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Once Each Year, Kimo And His Grandfather Have Placed A Flower Lei Atop A Stone Monument At Laupahoehoe Point, But It Is Not Until After Grandfather's Death That Kimo Learns Of The 1946 Tsunami That Took The Lives Of Twenty-four Schoolchildren And Teachers, Including Grandfather's Younger Brother. - By Anthony D. Fredericks,tammy Yee
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Quilters have flocked to Elm Creek Manor to learn from Master Quilter Sylvia Compson and her expert colleagues. There's Sarah, Sylvia's one time apprentice who's paired her quilting accomplishments with a mind for running the buisness of Elm Creek Quilts: Agnes, who has a gift for applique quilts; Gwen, who stiches innovative art quilts; Diane, a whiz at the technicalities of quick-piecing; and Bonnie, with her encyclopedic knowledge of folk art patterns. But with Judy and Summer, two other founding...
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Gee's Bend (the Architecture Of The Quilt) (hardcover) - By Paul Arnett
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The Art of the Handmade Quilt (Hardcover)
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies. Subgenre: Quilts & Quilting, Applique. Date Published: June 03, 2008. Release Date: June 03, 2008. Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc. Pages: 176. Format: Hardcover.
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Around the Quilt Frame: Stories and Musings on the Quilter's Craft (Hardcover)
This unique compilation of essays and stories about quilts and quilting blends light-hearted tales with more philosophical pieces. From a variety of well-known quilting writers, including Helen Kelley, Ami Simms, Lisa Boyer, Patricia Cox, Jean Ray Laury, and Sandra Dallas, these pieces expertly stitch together a mix of contemporary and vintage pieces to create a patchwork of treasured and timeless tales.
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The Quilter's Legacy: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (Hardcover)
Sylvia's quest leads her to unexpected places, where offers of assistance are not always what they seem. As the search continues, revelations surface about her mother, Eleanor Lockwood, who died in 1930, when Sylvia was only a child. Burdened with poor health and distant parents, Eleanor Lockwood defied her family by marrying for love. Far from her Manhattan home, she embraced her new life among the Bergstroms -- but although warmth and affection surrounded Eleanor at last, the Bergstroms could not...
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Hardcover, The Quilter's Homecoming: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
A Roaring Twenties adventure unfolds in Jennifer Chiaverini's latest bestselling Elm Creek Quilts novel, another in "a series that neatly stitches together social drama and the art of quilting" (Library Journal).Newly wed in a festive yet poignant ceremony at Elm Creek Manor, bride Elizabeth Nelson takes leave of her ancestral Pennsylvania home. Setting off with her husband, Henry, on the adventure of a lifetime, Elizabeth packs the couple's trunk with more than the wedding quilts she envisions them dreaming beneath every night of their married lives. They are landowners who hold the deed to Triumph Ranch, 120 acres of prime California soil located in the Arboles Valley, north of Los Angeles. "Triumph Ranch," says Mae, a traveling companion whom Elizabeth has let in on the promise of the Nelsons' bright future. "That sounds like a sure thing." But in a cruel reversal of fortune, the Nelsons arrive to the news that they've been had, and they are left suddenly, irrevocably penniless. They are hired as hands ...
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Hardcover, The Aloha Quilt
Jennifer Chiaverini s bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues at a quilter s retreat in scenic Hawaii.
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Selina And The Bear Paw Quilt (hardcover)
Selina And The Bear Paw Quilt (hardcover) - By B. Smucker,janet Wilson
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Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt is a major book and museum exhibition that will premiere at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), in June 2006 before traveling to seven American museums through 2008. Organized jointly by the Tinwood Alliance and the MFAH, in conjunction with the Gee s Bend Foundation, the exhibition will present seventy quilt masterpieces from the Alabama town of Gee s Bend. In 2002, Gee s Bend burst into international prominence through the success of Tinwood s Quilts...
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Quilts of Provence provides guidance to readers for creating these artful quilted pieces, with ten projects perfect for intermediate or expert quilters—work sure to inspire beginners as well. Projects include an elegant baby’s bib and an infant lap piece, a comfortable woman’s vest, a quilted pillow sham, and a range of exquisite bedcovers and quilted throws, some of which merit display like the works of art they are. Also included are a detailed resource section, which provides information on how...
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The Keeping Quilt Tenth Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)
When Patricia's Great-Gramma Anna came to America as a child, the only things she brought along from Russia were her dress and the babushka she liked to throw up into the air when she was dancing. Soon enough, though, Anna outgrew the dress and her mother decided to incorporate it and the babushka into a quilt. "It will be like having a family in backhome Russia dance around us at night," she said. And so it was. Together with her Uncle Vladimir's shirt, Aunt Havalah's nightdress, and an apron of...
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