Tying the Knot (Kansas Quilter): Volume 1 (Kansas Quilter Series) - Softcover

Hubalek, Linda K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484148347 ISBN 13: 9781484148341

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Tying the Knot, the first historical fiction book in the Kansas Quilter series follows Kizzie Pieratt as she receives trunks and quilts from her relatives to use on her family's wagon trip from Kansas to the Indian Territory. Kizzie learns about the significant moves previous generations have made for their families, just like she is about to do next. This book series shares the stories and photos of Linda Hubalek's pioneer ancestors that homesteaded in Kansas in the 1800s. The Kansas Quilter series continues the family stories written in Hubalek's Trail of Thread series. A bonus section tells the "Story behind the story" of the Kansas Quilter series and features photos of some of the quilts that the Pieratt family made. Excerpt from Tying the Knot. "But my ma made it..." Both my mother-in-law Harriet and I glance up at the words James Monroe just uttered softly. Does my big father-in-law have a tear in his eye? His fingers slowly rub the corner of the tattered string quilt and he has the most mournful look I have ever seen on his worn, bearded face. Harriet had brought down a pile of old quilts stored upstairs in their home that she thought we could use on our wagon trip. We were going through them in the kitchen while James Monroe sat at the kitchen table, having his usual afternoon cup of coffee and a slice of pie. I look back at the quilt. Its blocks are arranged in groups of four to form a diamond pattern. It's a combination of light and dark shirt silk and cotton material with odds and ends of red and blue blocks mixed in, in odd places. I pick up the opposite end of the quilt where there is a bright red block. Looking closer I see it's not the original fabric, but newer material. I'm guessing the five red blocks, have been patched over worn out spots on the quilt. The backing is one sheet of old flannel and the filling isn't too lumpy. It would be perfect to use as outside bedding on our trip, or use as a tent to shield the children from sun or rain. I'm cert

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About the Author:

Author Linda Hubalek vowed to write a book about her great-grandmother Kizzie Pieratt after one of Linda’s last visits to the Pieratt homestead in 1982. Besides raising eight children and farming, Kizzie made dozens of quilts for three generations of her family, plus quilted for other people. Over thirty years passed since that day, as life took Linda Hubalek on several different paths and careers. After researching and writing ten historical fiction books on pioneer women, then taking more than a decade off to raise bison on her land, Linda has written her book series about Kizzie and her quilts. Linda Hubalek majored in agriculture in college, and featured in Country Woman Magazine about her wildflower business when her husband's job transferred them to California. She then started writing about the Kansas prairie she was homesick for and started her writing career. Linda's first book, Butter in the Well, written as diary entries, is about the Swedish immigrant that homesteaded her family farm. Readers wanted to know what happened to the family, so she continued the story with Prairie Bloomin’, Egg Gravy (a pioneer cookbook), and Looking Back. Her next historical fiction series features pioneer women as they experience the Civil War firsthand. Trail of Thread, Thimble of Soil, and Stitch of Courage, written in the form of letters, has a quilt theme because of a quilt handed down in Linda Hubalek's family. Planting Dreams, Cultivating Hope, and Harvesting Faith tells her ancestor's story that changed their family history forever when they homesteaded on the unforgiving Kansas prairie. Linda Hubalek and her husband eventually moved back home to Kansas, and she continues to research and write about pioneer women that made Kansas their home.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1484148347
• ISBN 13: 9781484148341
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112