My grandmother, Anna Koushkouski, was a young girl when her family immigrated to North Dakota with her family (Germans from Russia) in the late 1800's. After marrying in the early 1900's, my grandparents began their new life together in a sod house on the North Dakota prairie northwest of Jamestown, North Dakota. She and my grandfather gave their children and grandchildren a model of family life, grounded in their faith and hard work. It was my grandmother who instilled in me a love of quilting. Her quilts were simple utility quilts to be used for warmth on cold winter evenings. But even in their simplicity there was beauty in her choices of fabric and the stitches with which she used to embellish them. Flowers were also important to her. She usually had several flower gardens in addition to a vegetable garden, bringing beauty into a hard North Dakota farm life.

North Dakota Pioneer Days

        Created by: Bobbie Shields

This quilt is sponsored by Vicki Ericson, State Farm Agent