Round Robin: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

"Round Robin" reunites readers with the Elm Creek Quilters in this poignant and heartwarming follow-up to "The Quilter's Apprentice", Chiaverini's acclaimed debut novel. But like the most delicate cross-stitch, the women's lives are held together by the most tenuous threads of happiness . . . and they can unravel.

The Elm Creek Quilters have begun a round robin . . . a quilt created by sewing concentric patchwork to a central block as it is passed around a circle of friends. Led by Sarah McClure, who came to Waterford, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Matt, a few years ago, the project is to be their gift to their beloved fellow quilter Sylvia Compson. But like the most delicate cross-stitch, their lives are held together by the most tenuous threads of happiness . . . and they can unravel.

As each woman confronts a personal crisis, a painful truth, or a life-changing choice, the quilt serves as a symbol of the complex and enduring bonds between mothers and daughters, sisters and friends. In weaving together the harmonious, disparate pieces of their crazy-quilt lives, the Elm Creek Quilters come to realize that friendship is one of the most precious gifts we can give each other, and that love can strengthen understanding, lead to new beginnings, and illuminate our lives.