In my just released novel, The Widow’s Plight, my heroine chooses to make a sunshine & shadow quilt because it reflects her life. I was asked what one looked like.
Unlike quilts named after various block patterns like log cabin, fan, grandma’s flower garden, nine-patch, or one of the many star designs, sunshine & shadow isn’t a block pattern but a fabric choice. In my research, any number of block patterns could be used, it is a matter of the fabrics, specifically, dark and light fabrics.
I pictured Lily making blocks in varying degrees of darks, mediums, and lights. Each block would be made from several different fabrics. One diagonal half of each block would be a shade or two lighter or darker than the other.
Then in one of the lower corners of the quilt top would be the darkest block surrounded by dark to medium ones. The colors would gradually get lighter diagonally to the opposite top corner.
If my fabrics and crafting supplies weren’t packed away in boxes, I would have made a mini quilt to use as an example. Maybe next time. =0)
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THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.Washington State, 1893
When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available in ebook and paperback.
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MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:
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