After I finish the Timberline Santa set, I have decided that I'll do ornaments honoring my family members. This one will be for my maternal grandmother: Alice Koenig Castor 1883-1966). Her family emigrated from Germany before her birth, came through Ellis Island and after a brief stop in Pennsylvania with relatives, they claimed land and homesteaded in Dickenson County, Kansas where she was born. She was born in a sod house, lived through two world wars and ended up seeing people in space!
She taught me how to embroider, quilt and sew. My Featherweight sewing machine was originally hers.
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