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Castle WallIn The Quilter’s Apprentice, Sylvia’s lingering regret that she has returned to Elm Creek Manor too late to reconcile with her late sister, Claudia, is tempered by her discovery of a Castle Wall memorial quilt Claudia and their sister-in-law, Agnes, had made from scraps of clothing that had once belonged to Sylvia’s husband, killed in the Second World War. Claudia and… read more » 
Sarah's SamplerThe sampler quilt Sylvia teaches Sarah to make in The Quilter’s Apprentice. The pattern for “Sarah’s Sampler” appears in my first pattern book, Elm Creek Quilts: Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels (C&T Publishing, 2002). read more »
Gerda's Baby JaneI have long admired the elaborate sampler quilt Brenda Papadakis wrote about in her book Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle Quilt. In November 2003, I began my own Baby Jane quilt using the fabrics from my second Red Rooster Fabrics line, “Gerda’s Collection.” read more »
My First QuiltMy first quilt (9/94): A nine-block sampler from a Leisure Arts booklet titled, “Teach Yourself to Quilt.” (If you look carefully, you may be able to detect four, not two, baskets in the block in the upper left corner. As you can see, I had a lot to learn about contrast.) People often ask if I had a teacher like Sylvia… read more » |