A Patchwork Christmas (Home to Heather Creek) - Heartwarming Holiday Novel for Cozy Winter Reading by the Fireplace

Great family values are shown in this book. Not always happy but lessons are learned. (sometimes by me too). This is a good series of books, I started to collect them (25) for granddaughters to read, but after the first one I got into them and I am reading them first.you did a very good job no complaints i highly recommand your services thanks for a job well done thank youthe book was like new, a lot cheaper than what I would have got it on guideposts. I was pleased.Excellent read!Love these books.love this bookA Patchwork ChristmasISBN: 9781616267483Author: Judith Miller, Nancy Moser, Stephanie Grace WhitsonWhat first attracted me to this book is my love of quilting, although I read and knit more than I quilt.And that it's about Christmas.Seems Like Love by Judith MillerKarla is an expert quilter and runs the local hotel.An old friend from school, Frank is there to stay for a while as he does his internship before they give him the job.He is allowed to sit in the kitchen while Karla and her mother Irma prepare dinner and reminisce about past Christmases. They catch up with each other lives and talk about the quilts for Karla's sister for her wedding.Karla and Oskar's wedding was announced and with the customs they had to wait a year but he found another to marry.Karla also teaches young children how to knit and crochet. A woman after my own heart with all her talents!Very interesting to learn more of the customs of their community.Frank and others attempted to get her to go out, even for ice skating but she wanted to finish the quilt. She feels she's just a plain woman and nobody would be interested in marrying her and having babies, which is all she wants.She does spend some time during the holiday preparations and also teaches the young children how to knit and that everybody has a talent of their own and might not be good at everything.Religion is mentioned many times, faith, and most importantly trust.Karla must learn to trust again after Oskar had left...When her mother takes ill Frank tries to help.Not only is the mitten pattern that was taught in class included here but cookie recipes..A Patchwork Love by Stephanie Grace WhitsonJane is headed to Denver as Mr. Higgins promised her daughter, Molly to see all the colorful lights in the store windows. She is hoping he will ask her to marry him.She trips getting out of the buggy on the ice but they make it to the train where her knee is swollen she can hardly walk. Molly has a cold and it's snowing out. Henry the porter on the train, gets them to move to more comfortable seatings and tells them he won't have to heat the car they were in, as they were the only ones there. She read to Molly from the book of Little Women that her parents had given her when she was a young child.Train gets stuck on the tracks due to heavy snowfall and a neighbor in the area comes to rescue them and brings them back to their house. Mrs. Gruber also knows a bit about healing so she pulls out the quilts to keep them all warm. Til the train whistles the journey will not continue onto Denver.Anna Gruber tells Jane of her boys' war scars and that many more had lived because of him, but his wife to be no longer wanted to marry him. Because Molly is so sick Peter tries to help cure her of her illness. They've had to send the train on along with a telegram and Peter brings a surprise back for Molly.They have a major topic to get over-his scars on his face...Good Christmas read, love pattern and recipes at the end..The Bridal Quilt by Nancy MoserAda and Samuel are seeing one another and not engaged so he enjoys his time with males his age.A fight breaks out and the next day he has to bring the orphan back to the children's home.Just when she thinks he will propose he asks her to help get gifts for the orphanage. Now that there is illness in the house she can not go with him.Faithfulness is what the flowers mean that he had sent to Ada.Although she was ready to marry him and help carry on his charity work, his father has disowned him for his charity work. no money, no job, nothing.She has now a year later taken up with another man in hopes of becoming married.When the accident happens she must take care of him and visits the grandfather's house to try and make amends.Ada tries to explain to the grandfather that God has called on Samuel to help do his work here on earth.More quilting patterns for ornaments and recipes at the end of this book.Tis the season to be jolly.....or hectic and frenzy. The folks in Heather Creek are getting ready for the holiday season and it will be the first Christmas together for the Stevensons and their grandchildren. I can imagine how hard it would have been for Charlotte and Bob to try to celebrate the holiday knowing that the kids are still mourning the loss of their mother. If I had been in their situation, I would have to think long and hard how to handle the task, should festivities be more subdued or should everything act as normal?As always I enjoyed reading the adventures of the entire family. I think Charlotte needs to learn how to say no to people. I realize that she's a very caring and understanding person who doesn't want to hurt other people's feelings. However stretching yourself too thin does not win you any extra points with Jesus no matter how helpful your tasks may be. In the past couple of books, Charlotte seems to be taken advantage of by other people and while she realizes this, she just can't seem to say that she can't do it right now. In this book she gets roped into being in charge of the Christmas pageant where she has to learn she can't be partial to her owngrand kids.I enjoy Emily's battle with Nicole. Not that I like seeing Emily suffer from the teasing but because this book showed that Christian teens even pastor's kids can be downright cruel and manipulate adults into thinking they are perfect. While Nicole is obviously not a good role model, it was strangely pleasant to see how she could fool everyone into believing one thing and then turn around and act completely the opposite. Most books would have everything tie up neatly between the two girls with forgiveness winning in the end, but it looks like the feud between the two will last for a couple more books. I was scared, I was worried, I was thinking I know what's going to happen to Sam's trip. I thought all these things because all the signs were leading up to the same predictable ending. To my wonderful delight, there was a twist! I was really happy to see this happen because it was such a surprise to see the story NOT go in the same route. It may be a minor thing to most people, but to this reader it was greatly appreciated. Once again this is another wonderful addition to the Heather Creek series and really gets you in the holiday spirit no matter what time of the year you read this book!