A Time for Peace by Barbara Cameron

Author:Barbara Cameron [Barbara Cameron]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2011-07-31T14:00:00+00:00

Sometimes Jenny wondered why she didn't just buy ten thimbles for her fingers.

It surely would save her fingertips from all the pricking they got at a quilting. She'd never been particularly interested in the activity; she didn't seem to have the patience for it even though there were a lot of parallels to writing. Both took quite an attention to detail, piecing together random bits to make up a whole, focusing on something for an extended period of time.

But while writing was necessarily solitary, quilt-making was quite a social activity and she willingly threw herself into it so that she could be with other women and chat about the important things—children, home, the community.

A fire blazed in the fireplace, creating a warm, cozy atmosphere.Cups of tea and plates of cookies had been passed around along with stories and news and yes, even a little gossip.

Young and old mixed, friends and family. Today, even Englisch and Amish.

"Reminds me of quilting circles back on the farm in Kansas," Fern remarked as she cut up pieces of material she'd bought yesterday at Stitches in Time.

Hannah wore a dreamy expression as she stitched on a crib quilt, one with a tumbling block pattern of many colors—not exclusively pink or blue since she didn't want to know the sex of the baby.

A crib quilt. Did she know that Chris labored over a cradle for their baby? Jenny wondered. No, she couldn't. Of course, she sewed on a crib quilt. What woman expecting a baby here wouldn't?

And Phoebe stitched on one, too. Jenny couldn't help feeling a little pang in her heart at that. She wished that Phoebe was making it for her.

Determined to focus on something besides herself and a little self-pity, Jenny took a deep breath and looked around the room. There were more women than usual today. It was all in honor of the extra quilts being sewn and donated for the Haiti auction held in Sarasota, Florida, each year.

Jenny had innocently asked why they were sending quilts to a country she thought was too warm to need such and the ladies had all giggled at her. Leah had quickly explained that it was one way for the Amish to contribute to an auction where the quilts were sold and the money sent to help the people in Haiti.

So she sat like the others and tried to make a contribution to the cause. What she got were pricked fingers and crooked stitching she had to keep pulling out and re-doing.

She knew more of the names of the patterns the other women stitched. One sewed a Grandmother's Fan. Another pinned the patches that formed a Trip around the World quilt. Jenny wondered how far the quilt would travel to a new home.

The Crazy Quilt with its random pattern and bright fabrics was the one she'd chosen. Mistakes didn't show as much and she felt she wouldn't get as frustrated trying to make order of the more complicated patterns the other women were used to after sewing them for years.

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