Blog Tour for Monna Ellithorpe

Monna Ellithorpe started quilting in 1985 after watching and learning from a friend.  The more she watched and asked questions, the more she liked the idea of cutting out those pieces and putting back them back together like "puzzle pieces." 

After many failed attempts at making a Double Wedding ring quilt by traditional methods, she decided there had to be an easier and faster way to do this.  Everyone else had a "short-cut" method to speed up the piecing process, so why not this particular pattern?  

She finally created this easier method to make a double wedding ring faster and able to be put together block by block and using the "quilt as you go" method if preferred. 

I hope you enjoy this Book, find it helpful and inspiring.  Wishing you much success in making your own Double Wedding ring quilt. 


AUTHOR BIO
Monna Ellithorpe has been writing in journals, diaries and creating short stories since her teen years.  She didn't have the "happily ever after" life she had dreamed of the first time in marriage, so writing became a way to release the never ending ideas, thoughts and sentences that rambled around in her mind; waiting to find a place in a story.  

She is an ordinary person who has suffered depression, anxiety disorder, panic attacks, divorce and loneliness; to finally find the true love of her life the second time around and lose him two days after they were married.  His death was a direct result of 30 years of faithful service and protection of our Country and the feelings of abandonment and betrayal from an ungrateful government.  They had a total of five years together (not long enough) and even knowing the outcome, she would do it again to love and feel the returned love of this very special man.  Still struggling with her loss, Monna has chosen to write and share her story so that others may realize you can survive and even though life is not like she planned, it can be good again by helping others.

Her first book published in 2003 was a different technique to make a Double Wedding Ring Quilt easier and faster.  She still didn't realize that her purpose in life was to write until after the death of her beloved second husband in 2008.  It was then that she started to seriously pursue a career in writing.  

Monna lives in Fort Myers, FL., continues to write short stories, articles and working on her first fiction/historical fiction novel, along with helping others to publish their books and teaching different classes online to help make life easier for writers.  9/2014

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