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The New Year's Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts Series #11) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 4819
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 141654755X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416547556
ASIN: 141654755X
Publication Date: November 13, 2007
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Product Description
At the close of THE QUILTER'S LEGACY, the Elm Creek Quilters were all in attendance on Christmas Eve, where they were surprised yet overjoyed to witness the wedding of Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the Master Quilter, to her beloved Andrew Cooper.
THE NEW YEAR S QUILT tells the story of how the newlyweds celebrate their first holiday season as husband and wife. Not content to rest at home by the fire, they set out on a journey across the snow-covered fields of Pennsylvania.
Their destination is Connecticut, and the home of Andrew's daughter Amy. Unlike the Elm Creek Quilters, Amy has not offered her blessing to the union. Though her father has reminded her that marriage endures in sickness and in health, Amy fears that Andrew and Sylvia have passed the age where marriage remains a prudent choice.
Sylvia hopes to win over her new daughter-in-law through the lessons that quilting reveals about the bonds of love and family. As a gift for Amy, she undertakes a quilt titled New Year s Reflections, whose blocks represent the holiday traditions of Elm Creek Manor. As she stitches the blocks, memories of a lifetime come flooding back, along with words of wisdom meant to celebrate the achievements of generations past and create hope for the future.
Just as Christmas and New Year's Day bookend the joys of the season, THE NEW YEAR S QUILT is the perfect holiday companion volume to THE CHRISTMAS QUILT.
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 Elm Creek Books are Fabulous! March 31, 2008
What can I say..... Read these books, they are for anyone and everyone who loves a great series! The book is great as a stand alone or if you want to start reading the series. Warning, once you do you will be HOOKED! I never thought I would like to read about families in the late 1800's but I love how the author writes, she keeps your attention throughout the book, it is hard to put down and if you do you will be wanting more! The series ranges from the 1800's to the present and is all about quilters and their lives, along the way you may learn a suggestion or two about quilting! It is GREAT!
Jennifer Chiaverini does it again! March 15, 2008
The first Elm Creek Quilts Novel I read I found by mistake. I thought Chiaverini was the name of an author of mysteries who had been recommended to me. I was pleased to discover that all of her books, including her most recent one, The New Year's Quilt, were mysterious, adventurous, historical, creative, and involve quilts.
I have purchased and read all of her novels and also have the two pattern books from Elm Creek Quilts. I am looking forward to her next book.
As a Senior Citizen, (I don't like this term), I enjoyed the theme of the The New Year's Quilt and the importance of generational understanding and acceptance in families. There is also a link between all of the books she has written so you can see continuity and remember others' experiences. If you read this one, you might want to read the others.
 New Year's Quilt March 7, 2008
In Sept of 2007 I discovered the "The Quilter's Apprentice" in a used book store and became quite enchanted with the series and had acquired all the books to date before I read last 4. As a recent retiree I took up the challenge of learning to quilt and found a beginning class and have finished my first quilt for a grand baby. Sometimes I even find myself trapped in the fantasy and wish I could attend a summer class at Elm Creek Manor. Having said all this makes "New Year's Quilt" (and "The Christmas Quilt" for that matter) all the more disappointing for its rehashing of story lines. When other authors use recurring characters from one book to another, they will often refer to something that happened in the past in a passing comment or paragraph, not chapters and chapters from previous books just give the reader one new tidbit of information. When the new information comes at the end of this story, it reads as a summary of ideas not yet fleshed out as if someone had run out of time. Unfortunately the format of these 2 holiday quilt books reminds me of the 15 min daytime soaps my college roommate was addicted to in 60's--7 to 10 minutes of yesterday's episode before the new stuff, then to be repeated again tomorrow. I don't watch much TV so I don't know how many series other than LOST employee this technique of rehashing the previous story lines. As a reader, this kind of format turns off your fans and robs your new ones of the flesh and bones of the new parts. I feel cheated especially since I bought the other books in the series as new books. I have "The Quilter's Homecoming" left to read and hope I won't be disappointed.
Disappointing February 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have thouroughly enjoyed the previous books, but was extremely disappointed with this book. It is a rather short book anyway, and then the majority consisted of rehashed stories from other books. The impression I get is that the author had a deadline, and did not have enough new ideas (or time) to flesh out a new and interesting story. I would never have purchased this (particularly hardcover) if I had realized how little this had to offer. The only reason I give 2 stars instead of 1, is that I did read the book through - it wasn't bad enough to leave it unfinished. But I will certainly read reviews of her future novels before I consider buying another. If you have read her other books, you can safely skip this one, or at most check it out from the library.
Historic facts February 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jennifer's books continue to inspire both quilters and non-quilters. Her books are full of historic facts combined with quilts and their heritage.
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