In The Quilter’s Apprentice, Sylvia’s lingering regret that she has returned to Elm Creek Manor too late to reconcile with her late sister, Claudia, is tempered by her discovery of a Castle Wall memorial quilt Claudia and their sister-in-law, Agnes, had made from scraps of clothing that had once belonged to Sylvia’s husband, killed in the Second World War. Claudia and Agnes had made the quilt as a loving remembrance for Sylvia, surely assuming that she would return to Elm Creek Manor soon. The pattern for “Castle Wall” appears in my second pattern book, Return to Elm Creek (C&T Publishing, 2004).