Addy Meyer wants to teach children in a one room school house in Colorado during the 1930’s Dust Bowl. Black Blizzards, the Board of Education, and bank president overwhelm her. Addy falls in love with the orphans her grandfather adopted, and her students, but vows to guard her heart against Jess Dettmann, who has a suspicious past. Foreclosure on grandpa’s homestead threatens the security of all of them. Creating a quilt from Grandma’s stash pile serves as a way for Addy to cope, but eventually leads to help and justice for her family. Despair, dust and drought weave through the Great Depression and Dust Bowl producing a fabric on which vivid threads of hope appear. Will Addy save the farm, her job, and her heart on the Colorado ranch?
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Summary
From: Carol Pennington
Book Title: Dust Between the Stitches
Book Author: Cleo Lampos
What do you like about this book:
An historical fiction, Dust Between the Stitches recounts life in Colorado during the Dust Bowl days. After her Grandmother’s death, Andy Myers leaves Kansas to journey to Colorado to help her Grandfather tend his farm and assist with the two children they adopted from the Orphan Train. She is determined she will not have another loss in her life and sets about to find a way to help pay the taxes on the farm. There she meets Jess. Together, they struggle to save the farm as the bank tries its best to take the land that has water access.
Another story weaves behind the scenes. Uncovering two quilt blocks in her Grandmother’s sewing box, she decides to finish the quilt of Sunbonnet Sue’s by using fabric and scenes that have significance in her life.
As a quilter, I really enjoyed the secondary story as much as the first. It is a great novel and I would recommend it for anyone who has an interest in American history and/or vintage quilts.
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