Anne is not only a dear friend, a talented historian, and an exacting reader she is also the mother of a childhood cancer survivor (as well as two other great kids). The director happens to be my best friend, Anne Spurgeon, whose name you might recall from the acknowledgment pages of my novels. Its mission is to educate, support, serve, and advocate for children with cancer, their families, survivors of childhood cancer, and the professionals who care for them. Dorothea’s project inspired me to create an Authors’ Album opportunity quilt for an organization close to my heart: Capital Candlelighters, the Madison, Wisconsin branch of the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation.Īuthor Jennifer Weiner displays the quilt in progress.Ĭapital Candlelighters is a non-profit organization serving families whose children have been diagnosed with cancer, especially those treated at the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital. Instead of the customary signatures of her friends, Dorothea obtain scraps of muslin autographed by authors and “other personages of note.” She stitches a signed piece into the center of each block, sews the blocks together, and raffles off the finished quilt to raise money to build a public library. In my new novel, THE SUGAR CAMP QUILT, Dorothea Granger sews a quilt using the Album block, a traditional “friendship quilt” pattern. Since the publication of the first Elm Creek Quilts novel, it has become a tradition for me to recreate the quilts my characters make in my stories.
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