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In \\u201cDorothy\\u2019s Christmas Star,\\u201d Dorothy Johnson approves of her daughter\\u2019s friendship with a group of girls from prominent families, but then begins to worry that young Hannah has grown ashamed of where she comes from. When Dorothy is left out of an important event, she decides to take matters into her own hands \\u2014 only to be surprised by the results.

Hello and happy holidays!

If you\\u2019re looking for the free pattern and story download, you\\u2019ve come to the right place! I love the star block designed by Patty Dudek especially for this year\\u2019s Christmas story, and I know you\\u2019ll love it too! 

If you want to know more about the Quilt Fiction Story Guild, you\\u2019ve also come to the right place! Just click here to find out how to become a member!

I talked about the Story Guild at the beginning of the podcast, but let\\u2019s take a minute review how much fun it\\u2019s going to be, shall we?  First of all, we get to spend time with our favorite quilters,  the ladies of the  Milton Falls Wednesday Quilting Bee! We\\u2019ve got two new members on board, Edwina Baldwin and Eula\\u2019s daughter-in-law, Elise Baker, and you know how adding new people to the mix always complicates things. Yes, dears, there are some surprises in store!

Like Friendship Album, 1933, Friendship Album, 1934: Forget-Me-Not is a work-in-progress. I\\u2019ve written ten chapters so far and hope to have at least five more chapters done before Episode One drops on New Year\\u2019s Eve. By joining the Story Guild, you\\u2019ll be supporting me as I write. That\\u2019s right. you\\u2019ll be a patron of the arts, and this artist/writer greatly appreciates it!

I\\u2019m also super excited to share chapters from another WIP, Diary of a Mad Quilter. I\\u2019ve loved creating the modern day Milton Falls and my favorite new family, the Fetzers. Beginning in January, I\\u2019ll be sharing weekly excerpts from Marnie Fetzer\\u2019s diaries. As the title suggests, there\\u2019s a lot of humor in Marnie\\u2019s story, and I  hope you\\u2019ll enjoy spending time with the newest addition to the Milton Falls quilting roster. 

If you\\u2019re here, then you\\u2019re a story lover, so you\\u2019ll be glad to know that by joining the Story Guild, you\\u2019ll get even more Milton Falls quilting stories in your inbox. I\\u2019ve got a bunch of new stories in the hopper, including a Dorothy story from 1902, and a contemporary story that features Emmeline\\u2019s granddaughters(!). Expect surprise announcements of new audio stories and e-stories for you to download, one more way of saying thanks for your support!

As I mentioned on the podcast, we\\u2019ve got special gifts for everyone who joins in December. First, we\\u2019ll mail you a set of EIGHT holiday postcards as soon as you join\\u2013take a look at the cards on the website; they\\u2019re absolutely darling! 

Second, for joining the Quilt Fiction Story Guild this month, you\\u2019ll receive a free downloadable Friendship Album, 1933 audiobook with updated chapters, a $39.95 value. Please note, Friendship Album 1933 is no longer available on the free Quilt Fiction podcast. It will be available for sale in our Etsy store in 2023, but if you join the Story Guild in December, you\\u2019ll get it for free!  

I hope you\\u2019ll consider joining the Story Guild. We\\u2019ll do everything we can to make sure you\\u2019re getting a whole lot of great stuff in return for your support! 

Finally, a little about this year\\u2019s Christmas story.

\\u201cDorothy\\u2019s Christmas Star\\u201d is set in 1918. If you\\u2019re looking for information about everyday life in the US at the turn of the 20th century, most of what you\\u2019ll find concerns white communities. This is a problem if you\\u2019re writing fiction about a black family and want to get all the details right.  

However, I\\u2019m fortunate to live in Durham, NC, home of a historic black neighborhood known as Hayti, about which a great deal has been written. Hayti was founded as...'