Seamless love. Container of (work): Pin's promise. Container of (work): Mended hearts. Container of (work):
Notes:
"3 stories of women sewing hope and love through the holidays" -- Cover.
Contents:
Mending hearts / by Stephanie Grace Whitson. Pin's promise / by Nancy Moser-- Mending hearts / by Stephanie Grace Whitson.
Summary:
A seamless love: 1894 - Pullman, Illinois Hannah Cushman possesses a special talent for embroidered fancywork and design which secures her a position in the Dressmaking and Millinery Shop in the Pullman Arcade near Chicago where she encounters childhood friend Daniel Price. Daniel is disappointed to learn Hannah is being courted by a detective with the Pinkerton Detective Agency. With two men vying for her attention, will Hannah seek God's direction or ignore the warning signs He sets before her? Pin's promise: 1900/1906 - Summerfield, England Penelope (Pin) Billings and Jonathan Evers have loved each other since they were children, promising to one day get officially engaged. Both have distinct talents: Pin for sewing dresses and teaching others to sew and Jonathan - a doctor right out of school - in helping the people of the village. As adulthood nears and the time to fulfill their promise seems right, a tragic event pulls them apart, making both question their future. Will they discover they are stronger together than apart? Mending hearts: 1899 - Nebraska Rachel Ellsworth expects her stay with two maiden aunts in a conservative Mennonite village to be temporary - until a letter breaks her heart. Raised Methodist and encouraged to pursue fashion, design, and watercolor painting, Rachel finds temporary solace in quilting and in helping care for two motherless children. But when she and the children's widowed father begin to notice one another, Rachel must face the idea that giving her heart to Levi Herr will mean giving up the arty things that have always defined her.
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