Maybelle in Stitches #bookreview #cfba

A word from the Author:

I am the author of seven novels. Five adult novels and two middle grade readers. I never wanted to do anything else but write and every day I wake up astonished that I get to do what I always dreamed about. My days are filled with words and images along with the usual family stuff. I have three children, Rebekah who is married to Joshua. They have three of the most adorable boys on the planet, Lemuel, Cedar and Soren. My daughter Emily Kate is a lovely young woman anthropologist and my son Adam is fourteen and a student–he’s a genius who loves frogs and lizards and fish and plants. He amazes me.

I have never eaten a scallop. I love cream soda. Drink way too much coffee. I do not like elevators but I do enjoy needle arts and of course books. I prefer jazz over country (no offense), milk chocolate over dark, but not roller coasters although my life has often resembled a roller coaster ride.

One of my life’s desires is to meet Amy Grant so I can tell her she saved my life.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Maybelle can’t sew. But when she finds an unfinished quilt in the attic of her mother’s house, she gets the crazy idea to complete it. At first, it’s just a way to fill the lonely nights while her husband, staff sergeant Holden Kanzinzki, is away fighting in World War II.

Yet when Maybelle discovers that the quilt is made from scraps of material that can be traced back through her family heritage, the project is suddenly much more important. Then word comes that Holden is missing in action, and with little else to do, Maybelle clings to the quilt as much as to the hope that her husband is still alive. As neighborhood friends gather around Maybelle to help her through the unknown days and nights ahead, it is the quilt that becomes a symbol of her unflagging belief that Holden will return—to her, to their home, and to their quilt-covered bed.

If you would like to read the first chapter of Maybelle In Stitches, go HERE.

My thoughts:  If you have read anything on my blog you know I like quilts.  I love the history of quilts and the love that goes into them.  Well, this is another of the Quilts of Love series.  I really enjoyed this one.  It is a WWII set novel and focuses on the Hope that our women had that their men would come back alive and their lives would go on.  The women of the homefront did so much to help with the war effort and are some of the unsung heroes of the war.  This book focuses on Maybelle who is one of the women on the homefront waiting for her husband to come home.  She has a job helping to make ships.  Her mother ides leaving her with only her friends to keep going.  And then she gets the visitor, her husband is MIA.  Will he come home to her?  She begins to do something she is horrid at but that her mother was great at.  She begins to quilt.  Through the quilt she finds hope to keep going as well as friends.  Great read.  Pick up a copy today of Maybelle in Stitches to leave you in stitches and tears.