Ellen Baker
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Julia, suffering from a recent tragedy, visits the farmhouse in which her great-grandmother, Violet, once lived and uncovers secrets with consequences reaching fifty years forward about how Violet, her daughter Lena, and another woman named Grace, who all worked in a Wisconsin shipyard and had loved ones fighting in the war, were affected by World War II.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author of 1, 2, 3 Sew brings her creative skill-building approach to beginning and intermediate quilters—with two dozen projects included.
In this book, expert seamstress and craft blogger Ellen Luckett Baker shares her fun building-block approach to quilting. Organized by quilting shapes—squares, triangles, hexagons, circles, flowers, stars, and diamonds—this easy-to-follow guide provides a simple way to master the elements...
In this book, expert seamstress and craft blogger Ellen Luckett Baker shares her fun building-block approach to quilting. Organized by quilting shapes—squares, triangles, hexagons, circles, flowers, stars, and diamonds—this easy-to-follow guide provides a simple way to master the elements...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker's superb novel is the story of a newlywed who falls in love with a grand abandoned house and begins to unravel dark secrets woven through the generations of a family. Like Whitney Otto's How to Make an American Quilt in its intimate portrayal of women's lives, and reminiscent of novels by Elizabeth Berg and Anne Tyler, Keeping the House is a rich tapestry
...Author
Language
English
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.