The Elm Creek Quilts: The Runaway Quilt : An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (Series #4) (Paperback)

from juniperSun

A mix of real time and diary readings. Sylvia ponders her ancestors role in the underground railroad after finding old quilts and a diary in the attic. She needs to accept them as people who are not perfect rather than the idealized stories that had been handed down. It was strange that it took s...

from tjsjohanna

Sylvia runs across some family quilts along with a journal of one of her ancestors all about the time period of the Underground Railroad. Sylvia is fearful that her ideas of who her family is might turn out to be false. Lots of interesting historical stuff - especially about how quilts were used ...

from KamGeb

A fun book about a quilt made right before the Civil War, a family that ran a station on the underground railroad and a fun (but very light) mystery.

from kaulsu

Meh. Better than some. But LACK OF EDITING! It is such a shame to see a decent book ruined by laziness. Here we have Grace, again, still Sfrican American, but still with nothing except a few cryptic adjectives that might point the fact. The author seemed to tire by the end, and just raced through...

from kathlene.larson

Probably my favorite of all of the Chiaverini quilt books, the tie between Underground Railroad activities and quilting was fascinating. I have enjoyed this series, since I am a quilter, but this plot line was one I found I could not put down.