Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Tea Time for Advent 2017 - Episode 4!

Wow, that went fast! It's our final episode for Advent 2017!


Today I gab about the missing 4th Sunday of Advent :0, how it's suddenly a dance gig bonanza for New Year's Eve, and of course the conclusion of our Advent 2017 Book Club!



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Items mentioned in this episode: 

What are you thoughts on Chapters 4 and 5?! What would you like to see in 2018 on the blog and on the podcast?

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Tea Time for Advent 2017 - Episode 3!

We're getting closer to Gaudete/rose candle Sunday! It's our third installment in our weekly series for Advent:

Today I gab about how our Advent is going, Christmas baking and traditions, and of course lots of book club talk. Join me!





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Items mentioned in this episode: 

  • The Christmas Quilt, our Advent choice for book club.
  • The first book in the Elm Creek Quilts series is The Quilter's Apprentice, and here is a search for the series in Amazon so that you can purchase others if you'd like to read more! 
  • From the author's website, here is some fantastic information about the order of books in the series:
    The Elm Creek Quilts novels are a series of books written by Jennifer Chiaverini. The series includes twenty novels, one short story available as a e-book, and a reader's guide:
    • The Quilter's Apprentice (1999)
    • Round Robin (2000)
    • The Cross-Country Quilters (2001)
    • The Runaway Quilt (2002)
    • The Quilter's Legacy (2003)
    • The Master Quilter (2004)
    • The Sugar Camp Quilt (2005)
    • The Christmas Quilt (2005)
    • Circle of Quilters (2006)
    • The Quilter's Homecoming (2007)
    • The New Year's Quilt (2007)
    • The Winding Ways Quilt (2008)
    • The Quilter's Kitchen (2008)
    • The Lost Quilter (2009)
    • A Quilter's Holiday (2009)
    • The Aloha Quilt (2010)
    • The Union Quilters (Feb 2011)
    • The Wedding Quilt (Nov 2011)
    • Sonoma Rose (Feb 2012)
    • The Giving Quilt (Oct 2012)
    • An Elm Creek Quilts Companion (Oct 2013)
    • The Quilter's Ghost: An eShort Story (Oct 2015)
    In most of the books, the main character is a master quilter named Sylvia Bergstrom Compson. She and her young friend Sarah McClure open a quilters' retreat at Sylvia's family estate, Elm Creek Manor. Sarah and Sylvia run the "quilt camp" with the help of their friends, the Elm Creek Quilters. Other books are historical, featuring Sylvia's ancestors and earlier residents of the Elm Creek Valley.

    If you want to read the books in the order I wrote them, read them in the order listed above. However, since I wasn't planning to write a series, I have written each book so that it stands alone. On my book tour, I often hear longtime fans tell new readers that the books should be read in the order I wrote them, but other readers have told me that they have read the books out of order and were able to follow everything just fine. Ultimately it's up to the individual reader. Please note, however, that later books inevitably give away events that occurred in previous books. If you would like to read the books in something approximating chronological order, please note the following:
    • The Christmas Quilt takes place in the interim between The Quilter's Apprentice and Round Robin.
    • The Sugar Camp Quilt is set in 1849-1850, so it takes place before the events chronicled in Gerda's memoir in The Runaway Quilt.
    • The Quilter's Homecoming is set mainly in 1925, but it branches off from a storyline introduced in The Christmas Quilt.
    • The New Year's Quilt immediately follows The Quilter's Legacy.
    • The Lost Quilter begins in 1859 immediately following the events chronicled in Gerda's memoir in The Runaway Quilt.
    • A Quilter's Holiday takes place while Bonnie is in Hawaii in The Aloha Quilt.
    • The Union Quilters begins in 1861 and runs mostly concurrently with The Lost Quilter.
    • The Wedding Quilt takes place after A Quilter's Holiday and The Aloha Quilt, with flash forwards to the year 2028.
    • Sonoma Rose is set in the Prohibition era immediately following the events of The Quilter's Homecoming.
    • The Giving Quilt takes place when Sarah McClure's twins are four and a half years old.

Whoa. Now I *really* want to go back and read the entire series! Next week we finish up and read Chapters 4 and 5! Let me know your thoughts on Chapter 3 below, or over in the thread on our Facebook group!

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Tea Time for Advent 2017 - Episode 2!

Virtual high five everybody! I'm back for a second week in our Advent Tea Time series!

Today in What's Happening, I talk about Christmas gift buying progress (*snort* it's not going all that well), and lots of dance news. We review the Blessed is She Advent Journal, before moving into our book club chat for chapter 2 of The Christmas Quilt! I thought this chapter was much more emotional than chapter 1.





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Items mentioned in this episode:


Anne at The Nutcracker: 


How is your Advent going, dear ones?! Christmas shopping? Please do share thoughts on Chapter 2 of The Christmas Quilt, and I'll have the post up in the Facebook group as well momentarily!