Cleo Lampos

Set in the 1930's Dust Bowl in Colorado, the conflict from the threats of foreclosure, drought, and loss of her teaching job plague Addy Meyer. A clean romance, this historic fiction includes the stitching of a quilt from feed bags. Despair, dust and drought weave together with community to create the fabric of the Dust Bowl in muted earth tones punctuated by vivid threads of hope.

Every quilt tells a story. Within its stiches are the dreams, the challenges, the tears and the joy of the quilter. Binding the fabric is the history of the circumstances that propelled many woman-hours of creation. Cleo Lampos seeks to understand the stories of these textile masterpieces. She looks beyond the initial stunning design to investigate the imagination of the quilter, the cultural issu ...