Leading expert on antique quilts makes a featured guest appearance on the Martha Stewart Living show.

Grateful for Lucy’s skill in creating clothes that hide her physical injury, Rowena encourages Lucy to dream of a better future. If you win the drawing, you will be ineligible for the next three drawings, though hopefully you will still come back and join in the discussion. Please do not include your e-mail address in the body of your comment —just make sure it’s correct when you sign in to leave your comment. It’s an unlikely friendship, but one that Rowena encourages by inviting Lucy to the family mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. One day Lucy encounters an intriguing man on the Cliff Walk, and love begins to blossom. Deadline for leaving a comment to enter the drawing is Friday. __________________________________________________________. Lucy Scarpelli, an Italian dressmaker from New York, befriends socialite Rowena Langdon as she’s making her summer wardrobe. Only one comment per person will count toward the drawing. Yet Lucy resists, for what man will accept her family......

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The most important thing I learned is: nobody knows everything and everybody knows something, but those who think they know everything really know nothing. I learned a few things, shared a few things, and at the end of the week I think I learned something from everyone I met. For me, participating in the appraisal skills and fabric dating classes, it was a whirlwind tour of antique and vintage quilts. Everyone who visits Paducah, Kentucky, in April for the American Quilter's Society annual show is treated to whirlwind tour of stellar quilts. The most surprising thing was meeting so many people who recognized my name when I spoke it. I really didn't expect that at all.