A Quilt For Christmas Review

Kansas settlers eliza and will share a deep love and a strong marriage and she s convinced he ll come back from serving in the union army.

A quilt for christmas review.

Sandra dallas has done it again. It is 1864 and eliza spooner s husband will has joined the kansas volunteers to fight the confederates. When the unthinkable happens she takes in a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war and she finds solace and camaraderie amongst the women of her quilting group. In fact even though it rehashes things from previous books chiaverini describes all incidences within the book well enough that no reference from the firs seven are needed.

Even though it is part of a series though this book can definitely be read as a stand alone. I have all of her books and delight in reading and re reading them. The christmas quilt is one of many in the elm creek quilt series by jeniffer chiaverini. Dallas flair for poetic description is not flowery but exquisitely simple and provides a truly mental picture.

In sandra dallas novel a quilt for christmas it is 1864 and eliza spooner s husband will has joined the kansas volunteers to fight the confederates leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land eliza is confident that he will return home and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep will warm during his winter in the army. A union soldier s wife wonders what happened to the quilt she sent him for christmas even as she adjusts to widowhood and creates a new life with other women touched by war.