Whitterbees

Kelly Elge holds up the sign of her business, Whitterbees, a work in progress made of parts from used quilted blankets. Elge named her crafting enterprise after a niece who showed her how to make blankets into jackets.

Kelly Elge holds up the sign of her business, Whitterbees, a work in progress made of parts from used quilted blankets. Elge named her crafting enterprise after a niece who showed her how to make blankets into jackets.

Kelly Elge crafts new creations from old blankets

Jacob Courtney
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Out in the fields near the Monroe Evangelical Free Church, in a house filled with memorabilia of the American Century, from rocket ships to political pins, is a woman who breathes new life into the used blankets by transforming them into clothing and crafts.