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

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.