A teacher has spent months hand-sewing a personalized quilt for every student in her class, sending each child off with a keepsake as she ends a 35-year career.
Kim Rohlf, a second-grade teacher at Westwood Elementary School in Ankeny, Iowa, made the quilts in the run-up to her retirement and handed them out before her final day in the classroom. For Rohlf, the project brought together two of her great loves.
“I love teaching and I love quilting, so it gives a little to share my love with them as they leave and I end my chapter of teaching,” she said.
No two quilts are exactly alike. Some are built around holidays or birthdays, others around a child’s interests, from dinosaurs to sports. Rohlf designed each one with a particular student in mind, and added a personal note to go with it…