You'll resonate with Jane Kirkpatrick's approach in the second of our Writers' Workshops: "Stitching Stories: Binding History, Faith, Writing and Craft," Saturday, February 7th, 10:00 AM -1:00 PM. The Workshop includes lunch at Kristall's Restaurant and a copy of Jane Kirkpatrick's latest book, Aurora: An American Experience in Quilt, Community and Craft — all for only $35.00! Click here to sign up now!

Jane Kirkpatrick will share her writing experiences and sound advice in our second installment of our Writers' Workshop Series, "Stitching Stories: Binding History, Faith, Writing and Craft." She'll show you how she went about telling her story through craft and artifacts that will identify quilter issues in particular and how those "crafts" can get woven into a story. Even if you don't think of yourself as a writer you may enjoy this workshop because we are all story-tellers. Some of us are budding novelists or memoir writers and some of us are keepers of family stories. Finding the next step toward pursuing those interests just may be the outcome of this workshop.

Jane is a writer, speaker, teacher and mental health professional. Her award-winning essays, articles, and humor have appeared in over fifty publications such as Decision, Country and Daily Guideposts. She's written 14 novels and three non-fiction books, including the Wrangler award-winning book A Sweetness to the Soul, a story inspired by a fifty-year old essay a Depression-era schoolboy wrote about his distant ancestors - the Sherars. Her titles have been finalists for the Oregon Book Award, the Spur Award from Western Writers, Reader's Choice and the WILLA Literary Award of Women Writing the West. Literary Guild, Book of the Month, Doubleday Book Club and Crossings have chosen her books as main features or alternate selections. Her novel A Tendering in the Storm was named a Christy Finalist and won the WILLA Literary Award for Best Original Soft cover Fiction for 2008.

From 2:00 - 4:00PM Jane Kirkpatrick will be at ABFAS to sign her book Aurora: An American Experience In Quilt, Community And Craft.

Notice the embroidered initials "C G" for Christian Giesy, Emma Wagner Giesy's first husband or perhaps for her surviving son. Learn more about Emma of the Change and Cherish Series and other members of this fascinating 19th century gifted colony, the only successful Utopian community in the West.

Buy a SIGNED Copy of Aurora - $17.99