By Kathleen Tracy
Meet Adelia, a 19-year-old woman living in northern Illinois on the cusp of the Civil War.  Her real-life diary entries record the details of daily life while war advances in the background.  Her journal illustrates how central sewing and quilting were in a woman’s life during the nineteenth century.  Includes period photos and fourteen projects featuring nineteenth-century reproduction fabrics.  Soft Cover, 80 pages.