Indian Summer $2650.-

2005

Dimensions: 28” X 34”

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted in extra think thread in Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric (by Kate Tracton, Chapel Hill).

This quilt was made in memory of my Mother, Anna Maria van den Honert - Coene (1913 - 2002).

Being a girl, she found herself privileged to receive an education as an elementary school teacher and possible Principal in The Netherlands in the late 1920’s, early 1930’s - shortly before the break-out of WWII.

During that training she learned about the USA and the “Indian Summer” in the South (as opposed to cold and rather windy Holland!).

Yet little could she have known that her youngest daughter Marga would spend the majority of her life in the USA, it being ”The South”, i.e. The Triangle Area in North Carolina.

When Anna Maria scheduled her first visit overseas to be with Marga & her young Family it was consciously planned for late September/early October in order to experience this “Indian Summer” she had learned about so long (about 80 years) ago.

When sorting out the very last of her belongings after her funeral in August 2002, I stumbled upon a stack of Creative Design Magazines I’d been subscribed to as a teenager. I remember flipping through them once more. Tearing out pages that could be an inspiration for a future quilt.

The torn out pages included the black and white tumble block design that served as the basic jump-off pattern for this “one-of-a-kind”quilt.