Dear Readers and Quilters,

I'm thrilled to announce the start of the "Fiction Comes to Life" contest, sponsored by Keepsake Quilting. The Threadbare Heart is novel is about, among other things, the way that fabric can speak so powerfully about our lives – about the things we love, the things we lose, and the things we may regret never doing. The main character, Lily Gilbert, loses a lifetime of fabric in a Santa Barbara wildfire. When she ventures into a fabric store for the first time after t...