"As fall paints the Pennsylvania countryside in flaming colors, Sylvia Berstrom Compson is contemplating the future of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts. Their camp remains the most popular quilter's retreat in the country, but unexpected financial difficulties have beset them and the Bergstrom family's stately nineteenth-century manor. Now in her eighth decade, Sylvia is determined to maintain her family's legacy, but she needs new resources -- financial and emotional. Summer Sullivan - a founding Elm Creek Quilter - arrives to discuss an antique quilt that she wants to display at the Waterford Historical Society's quilt exhibit. When Sylvia and her sister, Claudia, were teenagers, they had entered a quilt in the Sears National Quilt Contest at the Chicago World's Fair. The Bergstrom sisters' quilt would be perfect for the exhibit, Summer explains. Sylvia is reluctant to lend out the quilt, which has been stored in the attic for decades. In keeping with the contest's "Century of Progress" theme, the girls illustrated scenes of the Emancipation Proclamation, women's suffrage, and labor unions. But the quilt drove a wedge between the sisters. As Sylvia reluctantly retraces her quilt's story for Summer, she makes an unexpected discovery -- one that restores some of her faith in this unique work of art and helps create a way forward for Elm Creek Quilts." -- Provided by dustjacket.