Originally Posted by
misspriss
(hit the wrong button)Her husband left her with the two little boys, she had to make a living. She took food stamps for a few months and set up a teaching schedule for sewing. She and the boys dumpster dove for good fabric thrown out by the factories. "Where there is a will there is a way." Depends on how hungry you get.
And the fabric she got was in strips! hence strip piecing came to be. It was a factory that made collars for shirts so the pieces were long and narrow. She not only made lemonade from lemons she invented a whole new kind of lemonade. Eleanor Burns is a hero to me. She never gave up and never gave in. She raised two fine sons and taught a generation or two how to quilt. I think when they give out the civilian medals of honor for service to the country they should give her one.