About the Author
Carol Logan Newbill has been making up stories since she was three years old, sewing since she was seven, and making quilts since 1975.
During the 1990s she wrote and edited quilt books for Oxmoor House, including The Olympic Games Quilts: America’s Welcome to the World and several volumes of the Great American Quilts series. As a quiltmaker, she has won numerous awards for her original quilts. As a visiting instructor, she spent several summers teaching fiber arts at the Taos Institute of Arts in New Mexico.
Carol grew up with the sound of trains through her world from the nearby rail yards. These days, she lives some distance from those rail yards, but the freight trains still whistle every night at the grade crossing near her house. She traced Emma’s journey on the California Zephyr in March of 2011.
Huh? What’s a quilt mystery and how is this one different?
A quilt mystery is a quilt design that is presented in sections so that the quilter does not know what the final design will be until the last section has been received. Mystery segments are usually delivered weekly: Week one you will receive yardage information; week two you will be told how many pieces to cut, and so on. By the fourth or fifth week the entire design is revealed.
Silver Road to California brings you a complete novel in twelve chapters, one chapter per month for a full year. Twelve quilt blocks are woven into the story, one per month. Not only that, you get a second pattern for a queen-sized Road to California quilt!
Take a look at the Prologue — it’s completely free! The beginning of the Silver Road to California, the first sampler block and the Road to California quilt pattern are free to download. You don’t have to give your email address or name. It’s just free!
If you like what you see, sign up. Chapter 1, with the second sampler block and the next part of the story, will be yours immediately. One month later, Chapter 2, with the second block, will be available (We’ll send out an email to remind you). On the first of each month, you’ll get access to another chapter of Emma’s story, plus an additional sampler block. And at the end of the twelve months, you will also get two different additional settings — complete quilt assembly and finishing instructions for your sampler blocks.
Just $9.95 per month for 12 months! Thirteen quilt blocks plus three full-size quilt patterns. Exclusive content that you can’t get anywhere else, by an award-winning quilt designer and author.
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