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Book Review and Last Day to Enter Drawing

Book Review and Last Day to Enter Drawing

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini

 

Thank you to everyone who has commented with their personal stories on my book giveaway post.  I love them!

Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker is a novel that reads like a diary,  a true story looking into the life of someone who was “behind the scenes” during a tumultuous time of our country.   We know history, but we don’t know the whole story.  Jennifer Chiaverini has written a must read for historical fiction fans.  After reading the book, you’ll want to know more about this woman, Elizabeth Keckley, and the amazing life she lived.  My only disappointment with the book is that it didn’t have pictures of the dresses and wardrobe fittings!  For the fans of Chiaverini’s Elm Creek series, you’ll be happy to know there is a quilt story weaved in.

There is still time to win this book!  Leave a comment on this post before midnight CST and you’ll be entered to win.  The winner will announced tomorrow!  Thank you and good luck to all!  🙂 Linda

Recycled Tape Measures

Recycled Tape Measures

tape measure pouch

 

Yes, it’s a pouch made out of tape measures!  I have been wanting to make a little holder for my small Kindle but this Christmas present is perfect!  Our daughter works at the Luther College book store and they get the most interesting merchandise.  I love it!  I’m off the hook for making something now.

However, here’s a fun tutorial for an e-reader carrier.

Margie's Cheater Quilt -2

Margie's Cheater Quilt

 

 

 

 

Here’s a couple pictures of the quilt I’m working on.  It’s a cheater quilt we found in my sister’s closet!  I’m having lots of fun quilting different designs in the middle of each flower.  It’s hard to photograph when it’s still on the longarm, you can click the picture for a better view!

 

 

 

There’s still time to enter to win Jennifer Chiaverini’s new book, “Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker”!  Here’s the link.

Thanks!  🙂 Linda

 

Poppies Plus

Poppies Plus

Linda's Poppies Plus

 

 

This is another large original quilt by Linda P. using poppy panels and lots of random piecing.  I love how she used multiple fabrics and pieced elements to make this quilt.  The quilting is a mixture of freehand “drawings”.  Each element has it’s own style of texture.  Enjoy the pics!

Poppy panels detail

Pieced back

And Linda never fails to surprise me with her “everything but the kitchen sink” backs.

There’s still time to enter to win Jennifer Chiaverini’s new book, “Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker”!  Here’s the link.

Thanks!  🙂 Linda

 

 

 

 

A Conversation with Jennifer Chiaverini – cont…

A Conversation with Jennifer Chiaverini – cont…

jennifer

Your New York Times bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series has frequently drawn on history to great acclaim, and your passion for the American people, their struggles and triumphs, shines through. What is it about the antebellum and Civil War eras, especially, that intrigues you as a writer?

The antebellum and Civil War eras were a tumultuous and transformative time for our nation, showing the best and worst of humanity in stark contrast. Looking back, we discover great moral failings alongside true heroism in the struggle for justice, equality, and freedom. My personal heroes are people who face adversity with moral courage and dignity, whose hunger for justice and compassion for others lead them to stand up for what is right even at great risk to themselves. My favorite characters to write about either possess similar qualities, or are given the opportunity to summon up these qualities and do what is right but fall short. What slavery, the Underground Railroad, secession, and the Civil War say about our country—that we are capable of both great moral failings and tremendous goodness—resonates strongly even today, perhaps especially today, and as a creative person, I am drawn to explore and try to understand that conflict.

What is your next work of fiction? Can readers expect to meet another remarkable yet little known figure from America’s past?

 My next novel, The Spymistress (Dutton, October 2013), will explore the suspenseful, clandestine life of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union loyalist who was General Grant’s most valuable spy in her native Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital during the tumultuous years of the Civil War.

Here’s the link to win this book!  🙂 Linda

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini

 

 

 

 

 

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