Lee’s photograph depicts a young mother in Texas wearing fashionable stockings and shoes and a housedress in a cheery printed fabric, perhaps her best one. She’s sitting on a make-do bed on the floor, on which we can see two pieced quilts, with a bubble gum box filled with scraps of fabrics beside her. She’s at work on a complicated pattern, piecing sixty-degree angles into a Lone Star or other large central motif, one of the patterns made popular by the Colonial Revival. Despite her  precarious living conditions, this migrant mother stitches on a fashionable quilt, perhaps to make the space feel more like home.