No Time on My Hands
~ by Nellie Snyder Yost ~
(With mother, Grace McCance Snyder)

The story of Grace Snyder's life homesteading in Nebraska.
From a diary written by a young Grace in Nebraska in 1898.

As a little girl, Grace Snyder had three dreams:
to marry a cowboy, to see the top side of a cloud, and to make the most beautiful quilts in the world.
This book is about how her dreams came true. She tells about her girlhood, her marriage and family,
and making the quilts that earned her many ribbons and a reputation as one of America's finest quilters.
She lived the life of her dreams.

Grace Snyder and Nellie Snyder Yost
Taken at Grace's home in 1963

From her childhood in a sod house to a pioneer woman in the Nebraska Sandhills,
she accurately tells the story of what it was like to live in a rapidly changing world.
It is amazing to think of how hard life was on the prairie, and yet she found time
to make the most exquisite quilts.

E-mail Nellie Snyder Yost's Granddaughter, Jo Morphew